I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for perfection is God's business.

Mediocre men work at their best men seeking excellence strive to do better.

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

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them or to use words like beauty excellence art poetry with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.

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.

The excellency of every art is its intensity capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.