Quotes About Excellence

It's definitely good to play out of my comfort zone, especially in the Sydney Premier League which is one of the toughest leagues in the world.

The best is the enemy of the good.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

"Good enough never is" has become the motto of this company.

Competition is about passion for perfection, and passion for other people who join in this impossible quest.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything.

Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In communism, inequality springs from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

Some men are graduated from college cum laude, some are graduated summa cum laude, and some are graduated mirabile dictu.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

The true spirit of delight, the exultation, the sense of being more than Man which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hardbeaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.

The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

The best brewer sometimes makes bad beer.

The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.

Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.

Men of genius are the worst possible models for men of talent.

Gift, like genius, I often think only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.