Quotes About Excellence

There is no shortcut to excellence.

Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.

They were also interested in being great at what they did, creating a great place to work, providing great service to customers, having great relationships with their suppliers, making great contributions to the communities they lived and worked in, and finding great ways to lead their lives.

Success: Set your standarts high, and do not stop till you reach them.

If you want to become a great leader, you need to prepare yourself to become a great leader, and the best way to do that is to study great leaders.

When Christians criticize, carp, and complain but offer no alternatives, the world rolls its eyes, snickers, and moves on. It is really only when we offer a 'more excellent way' that we command or deserve much attention.

I just love that. Give people something good to live up to—something great—and they usually will. In fact, often they'll even exceed those expectations.

You want customers raving about your brand? Sell them a good fucking product.

Quality begins on the inside... and then works its way out.

Quality begins on the inside... then works its way out.

You can't get a good crew and a good sound system, and a good light system if you do a small tour. If you want the best, those guys want a commitment of about 4 to 6 months. And I'd want the best people and the best stuff.

I wanted to become world champion, and in this respect school couldn't give me anything… It is better to be one of the strongest chess players in the world, than to be one of many thousands with a diploma.

I add status to any tournament I attend.

Too many times, people don't try their best. They don't have the keen spirit; the winning spirit. And once you make it you've got to guard your reputation – every day go in like an unknown to prove yourself. That's why I don't clown around. I don't believe in wasting time. My goal is to win the World Chess Championship; to beat the Russians. I take this very seriously.

I am the best player in the world and I am here to prove it.

The most skilled coaches will always find a way for players to have fun, even if that trophy is nowhere in sight. Creating little victories within the bigger defeats is a mark of excellent coaching, and to those who follow that path, I applaud you. W

I am going to miss that time when you take that corner better than anybody else could have taken it on that lap or you do that great qualifying lap or you make that great pass or you bring a crippled car home.

Athletes who can perform on demand—Torres, Phelps, Ledecky—are enough like SEALs that this was Bauman's mantra for the American swimmers in Rio, in 2016: Swim like a dolphin, think like a SEAL.

The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.

Do not do that which others can do as well.

Do not be satisfied with second-hand or third-hand things in life. Do not be satisfied until you have put yourselves into that atmosphere where you can seize and hold on to the very highest and most beautiful things that can be got out of life.

We must always strive to achieve perfection, even when we know perfection is not entirely achievable.

Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.

An ambition to excel in petty things obstructs the progress to nobler aims.