Quotes About Excellence

Desiring to excel is not a sin. It is motivation that determines ambition's character. Our Lord never taught against the urge to high achievement, but He did expose and condemn unworthy motivation.

When people are placed in positions slightly above what they expect, they are apt to excel.

The best solution for falling just short of the goal is to focus on the fundamentals but perform them better.

...in my book success and winning are not always the same thing. To me, success is playing - or working - to the best of your ability.

It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things humans have done. And then try to bring those things in to what you're doing.

Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.

It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something very different.

Real Fathers are Role Models worthy of emulation. They choose to live exemplary lifestyles of leadership and excellence

Great masters merit emulation, not worship.

Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.

Find something you like to do so much that you would gladly do it for nothing; then learn to do it so well that people are happy to pay you for it.

Leadership is the art of creating a working climate that inspires others to achieve extraordinary goals and levels of performance.

And if God has given you a lot of ability, I believe you should be held to a higher level of expectation.

Get the winners into the game.

Excellent value relative to the week investment of time....To my mind, this is the definitive course on leadership.

Results matter! They matter to your credibility.

Talented performers flock to the best and brightest leaders, and these leaders in turn lift the lids off their people and uncork the latent talent inside of them.

Uriah proved to be a better man drunk than David was sober.

My job is to teach them to believe they could perform better than they realize. Great coaches teach athletes to go beyond the barriers.

At what point did we begin to think excellence is offensive to God?

Stamp your performance with excellence.

We must be the ones to re-define the world class standards of excellence

Lead competently.Lead productively.Lead skillfully.Lead excellently.

Average leaders take you to the mountain.Superior leaders take you up the mountain.Excellent leaders take you to mountaintop.Transcendent leaders take you to the stars.