Quotes About Excellence

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Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.

I am incapable of mediocrity.

How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?

You never win the silver. You only lose the gold.

Trifles make perfections, but perfection is itself no trifle.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Doing your best is more important than being your best.

Maybe five extra push-ups won't matter that night, but what if you do five extra push-ups twice a day six days a week for a year? Or for fifteen years, as I did? Eventually you realize it does make a difference. I was one of those that did extra. If Steve said, "Do a hundred toe-raises and twenty pull-ups," I would do a hundred and five toe-raises and twenty-two pull-ups, while he counted.

N.B. This quotation is a paraphrase of a much older quote by Aristotle, which see.

excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. you are what you repeatedly do

And, mastery is an asymptote: It's impossible to fully realize, which makes it simultaneously frustrating and alluring

We're capable of much more than mediocrity, much more than merely getting by in this world.

It's so tempting to try to do it all, so as not to miss out. But to do all of those 'good things' means you'll do none of them well.

If we study what is merely average, we will remain merely average.

But in fact, blacks ran into all manner of discrimination in sports and music. They simply would not be deterred. Their excellence and merit ultimately prevailed over all else.

People wrongly dismiss black achievement in these areas for reasons that can be ascribed only to racism—that our compelling excellence follows from a mere genetic advantage. The fact is that we are good at sports and music because we subject ourselves to unforgiving standards of excellence and then work ferociously to meet those standards. Ruthlessly, we allow absolutely no excuses.

If we observe and listen carefully to how a person behaves and communicates linguistically, we can glean an understanding of how, neurologically, a person puts his or her experience together to be excellent, mediocre, or awful at the things he or she does. Hence, this field is called Neuro-linguistic Programming.

She pushes you because she wants you to be the best." "The best at what? Matricide?

It's unbelievable to have come through a field of 64 of the best players I've seen for a long time.

Whether your time calls you to live or die, do both like a prince.

Every time I walk out onto the field, I feel that I can be the best one in the game and that I can be a superstar.

This isn't a game. We don't want mediocre employees who can keep the status quo. We want souls. We want to win. And you've spent most of your time here being mediocre.