Best Excellence Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Yeah, I might remaster it, in fact I'm sure I would. But all the songs will be the same.”

“The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.”

“Im definitely learning more about beauty, but I still have to master my hair. I like an undone kind of look.”

“I wish 'I, Claudius' had never ended back in 1976. That was the best TV show the world has ever seen - apart from 'MasterChef' of course.”

“I'm close to the Olympics. I want to snatch 100kg, but I need to master more techniques in order to do that. But I know I am capable of doing it.”

“There is no 'i' in team but there is in win.”

“I'm a task master.”

“Mostly my ideas come from within, from my experiences, my childhood and the master of all sweets and lollies, Mr. Willy Wonka.”

“My high school coach is an African American studies teacher, so I respect his perspective as an older white guy who has a master's in African American studies.”

“Henri Hooft is a master on the feet when it comes to striking.”

“I do yoga three times a week, and I walk for a half hour every day. In between, I get on the elliptical and my triple thigh trainer - I really do use the Thighmaster! - and do about 20 minutes on each of those. I also walk up and down the stairs a lot.”

“Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.”

“I know the signs of scaredness.”

“We don't allow our kids to do the TV thing. I became a master sculptor with Playdoh.”

“I was quite bowled over by Isabel Wilkerson's masterly saga, 'The Warmth of Other Suns.'”

“The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.”

“'Master of Reality' rules; it's one of my favorite records of all time. It has some of the most evil riffs on it - and some of the sexiest riffs as well.”

“What makes me laugh is 'Masterchef,' with that ridiculous thing they always say, 'cooking doesn't get any tougher than this!.'”

“My dad is a retired headmaster and my mum is an ex-teacher. I was taught by both of them.”

“I already have my fantasy job. I run a restaurant and film 'MasterChef,' both of which mean I get to cook and eat - and get paid for it.”

“When the players have all long returned home and are relaxing on the sofa, Guardiola is still around and working on a masterplan for the next game.”

“There aren't really any 'American' grandmasters that are higher rated than me.”

“When I was reading 'The Underground Railroad,' I had to actually hold my hand over the right-hand page so I wouldn't see, by mistake, what was coming up next - it was so suspenseful. it's really masterful.”

“I want to get a master's degree in... psychology.”

“That's what DSi is all about: Providing simple, quick-to-master experiences that everybody can pick up and enjoy.”

“I'd love to master another language properly.”

“Strictly is the master of all dance programmes. It's so big!”

“You need to know a lot to become master of your profession.”

“Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.”

“'MasterChef' is pretty good.”

“Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.”

“I want to play for years.”

“I could easily master Telugu, but picking up Malayalam was challenging.”

“I know from personal experience that it is extremely difficult to read while you work out, especially on a Stairmaster.”

“It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance.”

“The uniqueness about me is I don't do one thing perfectly or great. I do a little bit of everything. That's what makes me so unique. I'm just trying to master a little bit of everything.”

“Nobody at school would have expected me to be involved in anything that might have been perceived as cool. I was trying to make people laugh all the time, but my dad was the headmaster and I was quite swotty.”

“I'm not a Twitterer, I'm not a twerker, I'm not a Facebooker, I'm not nothing. I'm old school.”

“'Notorious' is a masterwork. I can watch it every day.”

“You'll never see me on anything like 'MasterChef.' I'm just not interested.”

“I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.”

“Masterclass.com is my favourite place to learn new skills.”

“It's a lot of pressure. Some of the cast wants a StairMaster on the set so you can work out like crazy before your naked scene.”

“When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.”

“When Cus would have to keep me motivated, he would say, 'You're a born teacher.' And he would say it over and over. He would call me 'The Young Master.' A little silly, but I think he meant it. He needed to keep me motivated.”

“'Stone Cold' came in with a monster push as 'The Ringmaster' with Ted DiBiase. That didn't work out.”

“I never thought a role model should be negative.”

“I'm an A-Level player because I have the strength to look upon myself in the mirror and master my reality.”

“The industry and support in China has really matured because there are so many productions there. At the same time, there's been a lot of changes in the market, which I think also has enabled productions like 'The Grandmaster' to happen and to be possible to shoot in China.”

“There are times when success doesn't make sense on a purely mathematical basis. I've played absolutely perfectly before, put in a masterful performance, and then my perfect play evaporated because one guy lost his mind and got lucky. Of course, I've also won that way.”

“I've been on 'Mastermind' - I tied for first place and then lost on the number of passes. My subject was the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy by Philip Pullman. If I did it again, I'd choose Shakespearian tragedies.”

“Peyton Manning, you look at his physical abilities, there are a lot of things that are middle of the road. But his mastery of the data allows him to be ahead. I love watching him because he throws the ball so proactively.”

“Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.”

“Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.”

“I love that idea of mastery.”

“Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.”

“I remember when I was in the Masters at 19. At that age, your whole life is ahead. Your mind is so clear. But, rather quickly, your best can be behind you.”

“I am glad I did my Masters.”

“You don't know where your career is going to take you. It might all go wrong and I might never play in a Masters again. So it's important to keep things real.”

“I would like to work 50 Masters Tournaments.”

“I think the Masters has always been the one which I felt I had the best opportunity to win.”

“I firmly believe I can win at Augusta. No question, I can win the Masters.”

“It's easier to win Masters than to follow all the PGA rules.”

“I want to own my masters. That's the main thing--owning all my music.”

“Plumbers can be masters, the guy who did my patio is a master, some people are masters at raising really great children.”

“I think when you can beat Novak Djokovic in the final of a Masters tournament, you are going to be OK.”

“I want to try and reach the final in a Masters 1000 and try to win one.”

“I always go to the Masters knowing I'm going to play well.”

“I was just overcome with the idea that one day I wanted to be one of those voices at the Masters and work for CBS and cover the NFL.”

“Tiger's swing when he won the Masters by 12 shots - I loved that swing.”

“I love owning my masters.”

“There's nothing like sitting and watching the Masters on TV.”

“Something mystical happens to every writer who goes to the Masters for the first time, some sort of emotional experience that results in a search party having to be sent out to recover his typewriter from a clump of azaleas.”

“Even when I finished third at the U.S. Open a few weeks back, I didn't putt very well, nor in the last round of last year's Masters when Mickelson won, nor last year's Open at Turnberry, where I came second.”

“It's always boiled down to the quality of your music and the quality of your deal with whoever's distributing your music: There are artists who sold a lot of records and didn't make money because of their deal, and artists who didn't sell nearly as much who made a great living because they own their masters.”

“Peter Morgan's writing is so much about what you don't say: you're saying one thing but there's 10 other things going on, and those are the best writers like Chekhov... they're masters at a sort of naturalism, and yet there is all the subtext.”

“I want to get my Masters in business.”

“The story of the week is you have got to putt well to win the Masters and I haven't putted well.”

“It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters.”

“I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.”

“What we want is to become masters in our own house.”

“It's always cool to go back home to Augusta, especially during The Masters week.”

“I am sure that it is the Belarus people who are the masters in our state.”

“How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.”

“I don't think anyone masters parenthood.”

“Needless to say, the Masters is the tournament I'd like to play in and win the most. I've never seen it in person and wouldn't go even if you gave me tickets, because I made a promise to myself as a kid that I wouldn't go until I played my way there.”

“I never think of a project as just being comedy or just being drama - even with 'Masters of Sex.' I like being sort of messy, like life is.”

“I'm not worried about the Masters. I never worry about this tournament or that tournament.”

“I think actors become jacks-of-all-trades and masters of none.”

“I've learned a lot from the masters of orchestration, like Ravel and Stravinsky.”

“Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.”

“I don't scoff at the desire to make good movies. I scoff at the quality at poseurs masquerading as masters of the medium.”

“It's only my second Masters, and I definitely jumped into that scene a little faster than I thought I would, to be completely honest.”

“I'm nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments.”

“In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.”

“You have got to be the masters of your own financial future.”

“Obviously it's easier to say, treat it like another event, but it's not, you know? It's just not. It's the Masters, and I want to win that tournament more than anything.”

“No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.”

“In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.”

“We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.”