Quotes About Excellence

Larry Fitzgerald is one of the hardest-working guys I've ever seen. We spent some time training in Minnesota last offseason, and to see what he does to get better, he has to be the best.

You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we would know for sure that it was the best way we could do it.

All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.

This has got to be the greatest school for lab bands in the country. It's great because Leon Breeden and his staff have devoted their lives - not just their time and talent - to build it.

I loved Jordan. He was one of the greatest athletes of our time.

If I have to win one game, I'd have a hard time taking anybody over Dustin Pedroia as my second baseman.

Discipline is doing what you are supposed to do in the best possible manner at the time you are supposed to do it.

Eventually, the time of action must come. When this happens, be a winner! Don't settle for mediocre results. Don't try to stay even. Go for it all!

Fencing made me feel for the first time like a winner.

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way

No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

If it falls to your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music ... Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.

Everyone has the power for greatness, not for fame but greatness, because greatness is determined by service.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper. He should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo painted , or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all hosts of heaven and earth pause to say; Here lives a great sweeper who did his job well .

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michealangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare composed poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

After we've discovered what God called us to do, after we've discovered our life's work, we should set out to do that work so well that the living, the dead, or the unborn couldn't do it any better.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and worth and should be pursued with respect for excellence.

I came, he said. Good Lord! If there were an orator-of-the-year award, he would be in dire danger of winning it.

La mediocridad no conoce nada más allá de ella, pero el talento instantáneamente reconoce a los genios.

La mediocridad no reconoce nada por encima de sí misma, pero el talento reconoce al genio al instante

The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and more slowly does it mature.

All religions promise a reward for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.