We usually get what we anticipate.
Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.
Delaware State has established itself as an institution of excellence in its own right and attracts a diversity of students from various races, socio-economic status and locations.
If you want to prove yourself to God, improve yourself. Words of guidance are so simple, yet so deep - anybody can win, if he be the soul entry. Unfortunately, in every field, there are so many entries and so to win , one has to cultivate excellence.
Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.
Nutritional excellence is the only real fountain of youth.
In today's global economy, however, it is important to raise the bar of excellence even higher. Today's students must be prepared to compete effectively on an international level.
Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error.
When one of a culture's guiding credos is that "all men are created equal," any person who, say, becomes an expert on, say, nuclear weapons or, say, ecology, i. e. , anyone who distinguishes himself through mental excellence, is a nuisance.
The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork.
The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.
You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest symbol of excellence. They are a tribute to the democratic philosophy. They are our aspirations and our name. They are the essence of Greekness.
An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of good artists in short, who knows in what excellence consists - will, with the assistance of models. . . be an overmatch for the greatest painter that ever lived who should be debarred such advantages.
Excellence has become a habit.
One fact stands out in bold relief in the history of man's attempts for betterment. That is that when compulsion is used, only resentment is aroused, and the end is not gained. Only through moral suasion and appeal to man's reason can a movement succeed.
In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman.
Lack of respect for the worker. This nourishes disconnection, fear, anger, phoniness, and all the bad stuff that impedes excellence.
The pursuit of excellence is the proper vocation of man.