~ Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer. ~

~ Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters ~

~ Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come. ~

~ 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. ~

~ Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. ~

~ If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. ~

~ Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. ~

~ There are no speed limits on the road to excellence. ~

~ No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation ~

~ Excellent things are rare. ~

~ Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ~

~ I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life. ~

~ True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope. ~

~ To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ~

~ By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name. ~