Top 210 Excellence Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Excellence Quotes from famous people such as William Barr, Azim Premji, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Paul Tsongas, Al Jarreau, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

We are building a national and worldwide network of law

We are building a national and worldwide network of law enforcement excellence – a network that, through cooperation, allows us to meet the challenges we all face.
William Barr
Excellence is a great starting point for any new organisation but also an unending journey.
Azim Premji
I am trying to pursue excellence.
Sanjay Leela Bhansali
America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.
Paul Tsongas
The work must be its own reward. I got that early on. And I’m blessed by meeting my own standards of excellence.
Al Jarreau
As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence.
John Strachan
Excellence is not a skill, it’s an attitude.
Ralph Marston
Find something that you’re really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.
Chris Evert
James Cameron’s films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.
Roger Ebert
The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Vince Lombardi
Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
Lactantius
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Charles Dudley Warner
I became to myself an imaginary figure of great excellence, daring and glamor.
Rudolph Valentino
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Aristotle
It’s almost as if the most successful people don’t put too much effort into being so brilliant at what they do, that they’re just doing extraordinary things. The truth, however, is they’re putting more and more effort into maintaining their levels of excellence.
Ron Mael
I read all these books about excellence, and then I went into spirituality, and all these books were really about leveling up. Being the best version of yourself.
Tony Gonzalez
I’ve seen ‘Goodfellas’ a hundred times, and one of the things that I take away from that movie is dynamic pacing and energy. I just think that film is sort of a paragon of excellence in filmmaking and the compression of narrative.
Joe Russo
There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
Aeschylus
Training programs shouldn’t be designed to deliver competence; they must be dedicated to producing excellence. Serious organizations don’t aspire to be comfortably above average.
Brandon Webb
Mittelstand companies are incredibly focused and almost always family-run. The young men and women go through the apprenticeship system and learn that the goal is excellence.
Tom Peters
Paris has long been a palimpsest of different cities, each new iteration grafted on top of the still visible last, spanning the extremes of human excellence and beauty and, just as crucially, filth and squalor.
Thomas Chatterton Williams
When I came into stand-up, I found a certain safe space of intellectualism, of camaraderie, of excellence that really has always been natural to me but always felt foreign in the other spaces I’ve been in.
Amanda Seales
The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.
Max Lerner
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Pat Riley
With the support of my family, my constant pillar of strength and protection, I have risen above hate with love and excellence, and a very strong sense of self.
A. J. Odudu
Mississippi is an imperfect state, and I can predict with certainty that I will reflect that imperfection. Mississippians also strive for excellence, and I swear to reflect that as well.
Tate Reeves
But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.
Lactantius
What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman’s excellence?
Sophocles
For me, I think it’s important to spread Black queer joy and acknowledge Black queer excellence and the achievements that have been made by my people, specifically meaning Black queer people.
Bob the Drag Queen
Don’t strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.
Victoria Principal
But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excel

But, I don’t want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence.
Dave Heineman
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.
James Bryant Conant
The more a business is able to develop and articulate a core purpose and engage with millennials, who equate purpose with business excellence, the greater chances for long-term success.
Punit Renjen
No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.
David Halberstam
One lesson learned is you’ve got to finish the scenario with excellence. You just cannot stop. You have to complete this, and I think that’s where Apple has taught us all what experience excellence means in the creation of categories.
Satya Nadella
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
Colin Powell
I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That’s always a challenge.
Rita Coolidge
I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.
Lyndon B. Johnson
I actually support President Obama’s initiatives on early childhood. He has appointed me as a commissioner to consult his administration on educational excellence for Hispanics in the U.S. We try to find ways to improve the education system for Hispanics in America, to achieve excellence.
Shakira
You need a commitment which is long term and a commitment to leadership, because that’s the only way you build excellence.
Azim Premji
When someone is good at what he does but is a nonconformist, there is a temptation in horse racing, like in all kinds of other areas of human endeavor, to dismiss him for his nonconformity rather than to recognize him for his excellence.
David Milch
Excellence is a high performance over a long period of time. That’s what I’ve tried to focus on.
Jason Witten
Lewis Booth and Derrick Kuzak represent the very best of Ford and our culture and built a legacy of leadership, integrity and commitment to excellence that will benefit us for years to come.
William Clay Ford, Jr.
I’m a person who values excellence, freedom and liberation.
Sherlyn Chopra
Excellence always sells.
Earl Nightingale
When you’re building a business, you want to focus and deliver excellence at what you do. This simply cannot be done when you are launching multiple ventures, dozens of new products, and selling everywhere and anywhere at the same time.
Daniel Lubetzky
Like anybody else that goes and does their job, there’s a way to do your job with excellence.
Ben Zobrist
People ordinarily don’t think of their orchestras as important as we’d like them to be. People don’t care about their friends and neighbors who sit down to commit excellence three or four times a year, but they will go see the tall bald guy with three names from television.
David Ogden Stiers
We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.
Vernon Howard
I’m in the pursuit of excellence. One foot at a time, one camp at a time.
Luke Rockhold
The great thing is, it’s not just about me and my impact. What you want to do is come in here and be a great teammate, lead by your excellence. That’s all I’ve been trying to do.
Khalil Mack
Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.
Vince Lombardi
I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular ‘ism’, but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence.
John Metcalf
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
Bertrand Russell
I was obsessed with the Olympics. It’s so exciting to see that level of excellence and endurance.
Lisa Bonet
I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.
Richard Price
There are three sportsmen: Tiger Woods, Roger Federer, and Lionel Messi. They perform with excellence, like most of us could never dream of.
Carlos Tevez
I wanted to emulate my parents – Mum captained India in basketball, and Dad won a bronze in hockey in 1972 Olympics. My focus has always been to achieve excellence whether in the field of tennis, in the corporate field, in the art of acting or in motivating youngsters.
Leander Paes
Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.
Jerry Moran
I’m especially honored that The Black Gents will debut Off-Broadway and pay tribute to The Tuskegee Airmen and other ancestors of that time who have embodied excellence, self-determination, and self-discipline.
Lamman Rucker