The quality of a person's life
is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence,
regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
-Vince Lombardi

The secret of living a life of excellence
is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence.
-Charles Swindoll

We need to internalize the idea of excellence.
Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
-Barack Obama

What counts is that one perceive excellence
and dares to give it expression,
which sounds little but in fact is a great deal.
-Johann Wolfgang con Goethe

It takes a long time
to bring excellence to maturity.
-Titus Livy

Excellence has a great cost.

-May Sarton

Excellence is an art
won by training and habituation.
-Will Durant

Just make up your mind at the very outset
that your work is going to stand for quality...
that you are going to stamp a superior quality
upon everything that goes out of your hands,
that whatever you do shall bear the hall-mark of excellence.
-Orison Swett Marden

Excellence means when a man or woman
asks of himself more than others do.
-Ortega y Gasset

A man who desires to excel
should work with those things
that are in themselves most excellent.
-Epictetus

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing,
some kind of excellence is within my reach.
-John W. Gardner

Excellence encourages one about life generally;
it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
-George Eliot