Quotes of: Excellent Keyword

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

Sun Tzu

If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity was to be a good-looking single person between 20 and 35, with excellent muscle-definition and/or an excellent figure, and a la...

Francis Spufford

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

Plutarch

Because in life, knowledge is only part of the battle. WITHOUT ACTION, KNOWLEDGE IS OFTEN MEANINGLESS. As Aristotle put it, to be excellent we cannot simply think or feel excellent, we must act excellently. Yet the action required to follow through o...

The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work

As sure as shadow follows substance and the sun rises on the east and sets on the west, a person who exercises professional excellence will be followed by success.

Called To Excel

Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.

The Apology

If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.

How to Win Friends and Influence People

Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given.

The Republic

Romance is a universally unspoken language understood by all living organism on this planet except heterosexual men.

My Most Excellent Year

We need to stop telling [women], "Get a mentor and you will excel." Instead, we need to tell them, "Excel and you will get a mentor.

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

Consciousness provides the fertile ground where seeds of greatness are born.

The Values Pursued Life: Excellence and Greatness from Within

You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.

Worship by the Book

It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be.

Plato

One of the biggest problems of 'In Search of Excellence' is that it focused on giant, publicly-traded companies. There are thousands upon thousands of excellent companies. Some of them are two-person accountancies in a community of three thousand peo...

Tom Peters

Some want, to be exempt. They do not want to excel, they do not want to exert. They want to be considered excellent, for desiring to be held exempt, from all accountability.

Justin K. McFarlane Beau

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

Edsger Dijkstra

Inspector Lestrade: You know, in another life, you'd have made an excellent criminal. Sherlock Holmes: Yes, and you, sir, an excellent policeman.

Sherlock Holmes

In a person's career, well, if you're process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you're more likely to be success. I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.

Deepak Chopra

Understanding character is a vital part of the process of finding a relationship partner and developing a strong and vibrant relationship together.

Creating Excellent Relationships: The Power of Character Choices

You have two options to choose from as an aspiring achiever; either you become excellent or you become excellent! Mediocrity is never an option!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.

His Excellency: George Washington