Quotes About Excellence

She had a passion for all people who did anything to perfection.

Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise.

I love to see Favre playing his best football, and if his mind his right, he'll probably have a fine season.

I love racing and I love doing well.

I'd love to compete in the Summer Olympics.

The most important thing to me is winning tournaments. I love winning.

I love Serena [Williams]. Seeing what Serena's done in her field has been incredible.

I love editorial and sound and music, and I was working with the best people, so you learn a lot.

I love Kate Winslet, Rachel Weisz, Maggie Smith and Judi Dench as well. They're all wonderful and they're very inspiring.

The game is so fantastic, and people who get into it love it so much...I'd be pleased with that. There's no game like it.

I love develop as an artist, to push my envelope, to grow, to make mistakes, to learn from them and to try and be the very best that I can be while I'm on this earth.

Find the thing you love, and do it with all your heart, to the absolute best of your ability, no matter what people say.

The most important thing in life is to love what you're dong, because that's the only way you'll ever be really good at it.

When once the mind has raised itself to grasp and to delight in excellence, those who love most will be found to love most wisely.

Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

If you want to do something better, do it with profound love.

Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.

You have to be brave before you can be good.

My philosophy is that I only come around once, as far as I know, before going into the darkness. If you don't do it well, it isn't worth doing, is it?

Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.

Perhaps the most important insight of all with regard to success is that to achieve greatly, you must become a different person. It is not the material things you accomplish or acquire that matter so much as it is the quality of the person you must become to accomplish well above the average. The development of self-discipline is the high road that makes everything possible for you.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself and be lenient to everyone else." —HENRY WARD BEECHER, NINETEENTH-CENTURY CLERGYMAN

What one skill, if I developed and did it in an excellent fashion, would have the greatest positive impact on my career?

One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential.