Quotes About Excellence

Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it.

Competence is NOT enough.

Put 'going the extra mile' to work as part of one's daily habit.

every person who walks uprightly, does the best that he can, overcomes the world, rises above carnality, and walks in paths of righteousness will have his acts and his deeds sealed and approved by the Holy Spirit.

More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great.

The healthiest congregations with the most thoughtful worship engage in an eclectic mix of worship expression that keeps faith fresh, serves multiple generations, stays rooted in the past, blossoms toward the future, stimulates childlike love, strives for excellence in presentation, bridges cultural barriers, and encourages ever-greater understanding.

I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people.

There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.

Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

Never be the best in town. Just be the best 'til the best come around.

It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.

life is like a chess game, and I am but a mere pawn that against all odds moves forward in the face of any danger in the hope of one day becoming a greater than I am. like a pawn I only move forward towards my goal and do not under any circumstances go back or retreat. I aim at achieving excellence through hard work and dedication to the job at hand. even when all seems impossible and out of reach I believe that failure is not an option but a stepping stone towards achieving my dreams.

the whale so caught belongs to the King and Queen, because of its superior excellence. And by the soundest commentators this has ever been held a cogent argument in such matters.

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Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world.

Always be the best, my boy, the bravest, and hold your head up high above all the others. Never disgrace the generation of your fathers. They were the bravest champions...

LeBron James

be always best in battle and pre-eminent beyond all others

Hippolocus begat me. I claim to be his son, and he sent me to Troy with strict instructions: Ever to excel, to do better than others, and to bring glory to your forebears, who indeed were very great.... This is my ancestry; this is the blood I am proud to inherit.

the historian has been trained in a society in which education and knowledge are put forward as technical problems of excellence and not as tools for contending social classes, races, nations...

Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.

And only those who can see above and beyond the American goal of respectable mediocrity can enjoy a life that leads to anything but a struggle to attain that end.

I like doing everything fully, getting the most out of everything one does. I think that's the way to live.

as long as one's decided to give, he might as well give the best he's got.