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Quotes About Excellence

Your life was meant to be epic. Stand up for your best today.
~ Robin Sharma
Doing the right things for the right reason in the right way is the key to Quality of Life!
~ Stephen Covey
Wherever you be, wherever you may, seek the truth, strive for the beautiful, achieve the good.
~ David Sheff
There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.
~ Ernest Hemingway
A great mix of tips, tricks, and anecdotes, All is Forgiven, Move On has excellent ideas for your weight loss journey and for improving your life along the way!
~ Judith S. Beck
I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in how seriously you take the job, how seriously you approach your whole life.
~ Martha Stewart
Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment.
~ Calvin Miller
Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
~ Samuel Johnson
Mediocrity always attacks excellence.
~ Michael Beckwith
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
I try as much as possible to give you a great basic product and what comes out, I feel, is really amazing.
~ Jil Sander
straw or a speck of dust anywhere.
~ Jilly Cooper
If you've got a talent, protect it.
~ Jim Carrey
Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.
~ Jim Collins
Great vision without great people is irrelevant.
~ Jim Collins
I don't know where we should take this company, but I do know that if I start with the right people, ask them the right questions, and engage them in vigorous debate, we will find a way to make this company great.
~ Jim Collins
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.
~ Jim Collins
Visionary companies are so clear about what they stand for and what they're trying to achieve that they simply don't have room for those unwilling or unable to fit their exacting standards.
~ Jim Collins
Indeed, the real question is not, "Why greatness?" but "What work makes you feel compelled to try to create greatness?" If you have to ask the question, "Why should we try to make it great? Isn't success enough?" then you're probably engaged in the wrong line of work.
~ Jim Collins
In fact, in an agile project, technical excellence is measured by both capacity to deliver customer value today and create an adaptable product for tomorrow.
~ Jim Highsmith
Project leaders must be champions of technical excellence; they must support and advocate technical excellence while maintaining a watchful eye on other project objectives.
~ Jim Highsmith
Aspire to be the leader your team wants and the brand deserves.
~ Jim Knight
Are you surrounded by rock stars or lip-synchers?
~ Jim Knight
Part of a leader's groundwork is in honing work ethic.
~ Jim Knight