Inspirational Quotes on Excellence

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”

“My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.”

“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way”

“People of excellence go the extra mile to do what's right.”

“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.”

“0 true and heavenly grace, without which our own merits are nothing, and our natural gifts of no account! Neither arts nor riches, beauty nor strength, genius nor eloquence have any value in Your eyes, Lord, unless allied to grace. For the gifts of nature are common to good men and bad alike, but grace or love are Your especial gift to those whom You choose, and those who are sealed with this are counted worthy of life everlasting.”

“Christianity does NOT replace the technical. When he tells you to feed the hungry and doesn't give you lessons in cookery. If you want to learn THAT, you must go to a cook rather than a Christian.”

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

“The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.”

“It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.”

“What the world calls virtue is a name and a dream without Christ. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer's cross and in the power of his resurrection.”

“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”

“So live that when you find yourself, you will still be qualified to be yourself.”

“Greatness is in the preparation, not in the performance.”

“If a task is worthy of our attention, it is worthy of our best.”

“The climax of God's happiness is the delight He takes in the echoes of His excellence in the praises of His people.”

“Let no one ask a stronger mark of an excellent love to God, than that we are insensible to our own reputation.”

“To take and receive all things not in ourselves, but in God, is the true and excellent way of dying to ourselves and living only to God.”

“In some dispositions there is such an envious kind of pride that they cannot endure that any but themselves should be set forth for excellent; so that when they hear one justly praised, they will either seek to dismount his virtues, or, if they be like a clear light, they will stab him with a "but" of detraction.”

“The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.”