Quotes About Excellence

Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

Do your best at every job. Don't sleep! Success generates more success so be hungry for it. Hire good people with a passion for excellence.

Success is how well you do what you do when nobody else is looking.

I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and you couldn't replace one of these people with fifty average people.

My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.

When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.

You don't just accidentally show up in the World Series.

Success for me is not to have all the medals. Success for me is to always do your best and try to develop and get better at every event.

It's not willing to settle for anything less than success.

Anything worth doing is worth 100%.

Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There's always room at the top in every pursuit.

Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.

If you say someone is good, at something, what is your benchmark? Who are you comparing them with? When evaluating capability, or success, in anything, don't listen to mumbo-jumbo rubbish.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

If you focus on success, you'll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed.

If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

Success is not a sometimes thing. In other words, you don't do what is right once in awhile, but all the time. Success is a habit. Winning is a habit.

If you want to be successful, don't seek success - seek competence, empowerment; do nothing short of the best that you can do.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

To become a master at any skill, it takes the total effort of your: heart, mind, and soul working together in tandem.

One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

True success is what you have done compared to what you could have done.

No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight.