Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.
Ted W. Engstrom

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.
Aristotle

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John W. Gardner

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
Ralph Marston

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
Oprah Winfrey

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

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.
Rick Pitino

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

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
Aristotle

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
Tom Peters

Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.
Chris Evert

Healthcare providers will compete to offer the best record of patient safety at the lowest prices. Hospitals and patients will benefit from having accurate information about areas of excellence and areas that must be improved.
Timothy Murphy

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Michael J. Fox

I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.
Lyndon B. Johnson

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.
Nina Simone

I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying.
Greg LeMond

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.
Edsger Dijkstra

I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.
Rita Coolidge

I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.
Richard Price