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Quotes About Excellence

If only life were one long crisis, everyone would be perfect.
~ Angela Thirkell
Life's greatest adventure is in doing one's level best.
~ Arthur Ernest Morgan
Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.
~ Brian Tracy
They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
~ Carl Hubbell
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.
~ James Bryant Conant
Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.
~ Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
Live a life that will help others spiritually, intellectually, physically, financially and relationally. Live a life that serves as a example of what an exceptional life can look like.
~ Jim Rohn
Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.
~ Shawn Johnson
Each player on this team whether he shines in the spotlight or eats dirt on the line, must be an All-American.
~ Omar N. Bradley
I've been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can.
~ Hope Solo
My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'
~ Magdalena Neuner
The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
~ Henry David Thoreau
All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
~ J. B. Smoove
Everyone can be awesome if they want it bad enough. And I don't believe that anyone wants to be average. I think everybody desires greatness, at least at some point in their life.
~ Jason Ellis
I've spent my life pursuing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.
~ Claire Bloom
I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.
~ Donald Hall
You always have to give 100%,because if you don't someone, somewhere will give 100% and they will beat you when you meet.
~ Ed Macauley
One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Do what comes into your life and do it well... Be polite without groveling. If you are ever afraid of anything, do not deny it, but behave as if you feared nothing.
~ Anna Lee
I'm not interested in a marketable product: I'm interested in what I know from my life experience to be standards of excellence
~ Barney Kessel
I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
~ Barry Diller
Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.
~ C. S. Lewis
Daily life is the enemy of greatness.
~ Marianne Williamson
Do not be content to live a mediocre Christian life: walk with determination along the path of holiness.
~ Pope Francis