We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

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.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

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.

You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it. Which is what I intend to do.

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.