Quotes About Excellence

there are people who try to look as if they are doing a good and thorough job, and then there are the people who actually damn well do it, for its own sake.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Good leadership consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

The secret to success is to do the common things uncommonly well.

Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.

But for the greatest long - range murder ever committed in a locked room, gents, I commend you to one of the most brilliant short detective stories in the history of detective fiction. (In fact, it shares the honours for supreme untouchable top - notch excellence with Thomas Burke's The Hands of Mr Ottermole, Chesterton's The Man in the Passage, and Jacques Futrelle's The Problem of Cell 13.) This is Melville Davisson Post's The Doomdorf Mystery

My life is basically a big chunk of greatness.

That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.

Everything about my life is about winning a national championship

I have a big belief that whatever your passion is in life, pursue it to the fullest and try to be the best at it.

There is no downside to winning. It feels forever fabulous.

Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life.

The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.

Football isn't who we are, it doesn't necessarily define us. It's part of our life and it always will be, but football won't define us. Excellence does.

You have to consistently be successful to be one of the top players in the world, and everything is possible in life.

Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals.

The life lessons taught by John Wooden have become legend. Here's a collection of some of the greatest 'Woodenisms.'

Focus. Focus. Focus...on your burning priorities. Say no to everything else. Life's short. You only get one shot at great.

If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything!

Average is very acceptable in our society but I don't think the angels are applauding. If you are determined to be excellent, to not back out of it, you will reap a harvest in your life.

You know, larger than life is always better than smaller than life in politicians. And, you know, God save us from mediocrities.

Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.