Quotes About Excellence

Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.

I'd never go onstage in my life without fully intending to do the best show you've ever seen.

It's really about putting that sort of quality and beauty back into our life.

Life is too short for non-WOW projects.

I'm doing this because I want to do it better.

Perfection is worth striving for, even if it is ultimately unattainable in this life.

I've been in a competitive situation almost all my life. I've been having a competition with myself and trying to be the best I could be.

I think it's dangerous if your goal in life is to get the other guy, then you're not going to be doing a really quality job yourself

Deep down you know you can be remarkable. You shouldn't settle for anything less than your best self, reaching ever closer to your potential -- whether as a leader or in any other part of your life.

I would rather spend my entire life doing nothing than have my name attached to something mediocre.

It's a nice feeling to go out in the world and look for excellence - the best in man. My subject is very valid. It's about people, and about life.

It is really wonderful for me to understand that there are times in life when your job, and the excellence of your job, requires to not be - have the comfort zone of being popular.

A graduate can be academically excellent but morally and spiritually bankrupt. We need to consider these dimensions in education as well.

And that goes to show that when you are great, you are just great, and even when you do something bad, you are still great.

Gates should have exceeded Washington as a military leader. He had long experience in a professional army and was more loved by his men. But Washington's character was superior to that of his rival, and it made him a great man, whereas Gates was merely a good soldier.

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

You may believe you're an excellent rider," he called, "but there are a score of Temujai back there who actually are.

Don't practice until you get it right, practice until you never get it wrong

Jij bent beter dan Crowley.' Hij zou nog verbaasder geweest zijn als hij had geweten wat Halt daar achteraan dacht. Waarschijnlijk ben je zelfs beter dan ik.

What I understand," he said, "is that there is very little about you that is excellent and that Aseikh is a term of honor. There's nothing honorable in a man who hides his face behind a blue woman's hanky.

Until I get it right," she said. But he corrected her. "No. Until you don't get it wrong.

not bad isn't good enough, not bad can get you killed.

Great Actions speak Great Minds.

There are fine cigars and cheap cigars, but there are no fine cheap cigars -- Winston Churchill