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.

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

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

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.

As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence.

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.