Quotes About Excellence

At an early age, I started my own paper route. Once I saw how you could service people and do a good job and get paid for it, I just wanted to be the best I could be in whatever I did.

I'm afraid you've got a bad egg, Mr. Jones.Oh no, my Lord, I assure you! Parts of it are excellent!

You should make great things, not promising great things.

Once a task has just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labor great or small, do it well or not at all.

Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.

Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.

Nature has placed nothing so high that virtue cannot reach it.

There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.

Not only did I play at a high level, I learned that personal discipline is the indispensable key for accomplishing anything in this life. I have since come to understand even more that it is, in fact, the mother and handmaiden of what we call genius.

WE come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. 58

I remember from childhood how easy it was to imagine, how hard to create: the difference between what I could conceive of and what I could actually do was bewildering. In adulthood I have learned that to envisage is nothing: success is a hard currency, earned by actual excellence.

You don't only have the need to do it well because leading a country is something quite important, but also because I am the first woman I have the obligation to do it the best possible way so my country can continue voting for women in the future. It is a big responsibility.

Man is not on this earth merely to be happy, or even to be simply honest. He is there to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility and to surmount the vulgarity of almost everybody.

I've had to guard Dwyane Wade, LeBron James and Dirk Nowitzki. I've had to guard the best person on the opposing team.

It's great, just to even get mentioned in the category with the type of person like Dwyane Wade, one of the best NBA players in the league today. It's great, and that makes me work even that much harder to be better than him.

We always strive to be the best in the wage package.

If I can't do an opera as well as most people, I won't do it at all. I don't want to touch Wagner because I think a lot of people do it a hell of a lot better than I could. I do the operas I think I can do, know something about.

If you wait this long to put an album out, you'd better be sure you tried your best.

It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.

When I was a waiter, I wanted to be the best waiter I could be and worked to be better at it every day.

You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.

I want to fight the best to know in my head I am the best. If I get beat, I'll take it like a man. I'm ready and waiting.

You have to make millions on Friday night, because there are another 600 films waiting behind you, with explosions and everything.

You can think you've made it and yet the next day's press will always be waiting for you, the public will always ask more of you. In short, you can always do better!