Quotes About Excellence

My swing is no uglier than Arnold Palmer's, and it's the same ugly swing every time.

We will sell no wine before its time.

'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?

If you waste your time and energy on things that don't matter in the outcome of the game, then when you get to the game you're not going to give your teammates the best that you have to offer.

Overly focused, it's far from the time to rest now. Debates growin bout who they think is the best now

Be at your best at all times.

Making good design is easy. It's polishing the half-assed stuff that takes time.

Je ne dis pas que l'ambition soit un vice inutile ; elle peut servir à fouetter l'âme. Seulement elle l'épuise. Je ne sache pas de succès qui ne s'achète par un demi-mensonge ; je ne sache pas d'auditeurs qui ne nous forcent à omettre, ou à exagérer quelque chose. (p. 81-82)

By striving to be the best we can be, we create the internal blueprint by which we do the best we can do. On a soul level, we want to work, we want to create, we want to be productive and serve others and share our gifts with the world.

Today I will not burden myself by thinking I need to run the universe. I needn't control anyone or anything. I need only to show up fully with my heart and in my excellence.

I choose not to remain at good today, but rather to answer the call to greatness.

El «cupo escolar» diseñado por él ha dado excelentes resultados en los países que lo han aplicado, como Suecia

Jimmy Stewart is always and indisputably the best man in the world, unless Cary Grant should happen to show up.

I'm happy to see you so well-settled here. Now you must make an effort, you must become somebody. I don't care what you do later, only try to be the best. Even if you become a cabaret dance, better that you dance at the lido than in a hole in the wall.

Today, we live in a culture that is less concerned with excellence and more concerned with authenticity. That's why there are more than two hundred reality TV shows.

Only the inept are always at their best.

People doing good work feel good & people doing exceptional work feel, exceptional. Accomplishments contributes greatly to satisfaction.

Better is the most important step to becoming your best. If you want to be your best, you need to start by getting better. Start doing better. Good, better, best. That's how it works.

Nobody can prevent you from choosing to be extraordinary.

Whatever you are, be a good one. —ABRAHAM LINCOLN

To a business, ordinary is poison, extraordinary the antidote.

Make each day your masterpiece. —JOSHUA WOODEN, father of John Wooden

I'm more interested in being good than being famous.

What's the opposite of suck? Un-suck?