Quotes About Excellence

Dear Young People, do not be mediocre; the Christian life challenges us with great ideals!

Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius.

The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life.

An exceptional life isn't the result of lucky breaks but excellent choices.

SEEK AND YOU WILL FIND. DON'T BE WILLING TO ACCEPT AN ORDINARY LIFE.

He is not great who is not greatly good.

I think everyone has the desire in their life to be the best at something that touches them, that reaches them.

Craft the finest arrow Forage jungles for straightest shaft Forge sharpest head of glass Pluck feathers of the wisest crow Without the simplest archer and bow Without a mark that's true Useless Craft the finest vessel Fell the jungle's strongest mast Build the world's mightiest hull A flag the crown of all seas you can sew Without the simplest oarsmen to row Without a port that's true Useless

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

Excellence always sells

But a young man should be ambitious to shine, and excel; alert, active, and indefatigable in the means of doing it.

Once you achieve a certain level of success, no matter where you are, what you're doing, don't be content with that level. Push yourself to another level. People that are successful are always pushing.

Don't get somewhere as fast as possible. Get somewhere as good as possible

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness — and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

I like to read great books not because I'm hoping to imitate them but because I want to remind myself how good you have to be to be any good at all. We won't be read in the light of other writers in our zip code or decade but as we compare to Proust, Joyce, and Nabokov. History has set the bar very high, and one must jump over it, not do the limbo under it.

Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare, said a wise man. If so, what happens to excellence when we eliminate the difficulty and the rarity?

True experts continually deepen their mastery of the basics.

Brilliant students and brilliant innovators create their own victories by practicing habits of thinking that inevitably carry them step-by-step to works of greatness

Talent does what it can: Genius does what it must.

Unfortunately, our existing traditional thinking habits insist that you must attack something and show it to be bad before you can suggest a change. It is more difficult to acknowledge that something is excellent and then to ask for change because although it is excellent, it is not enough.