Quotes About Excellence

I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more.

People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.

Unless in one thing or another we are straining toward perfection, we have forfeited our manhood.

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.

Only great men may have great faults.

Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.

No man ever yet became great by imitation.

It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.

Man is happy only as he finds a work worth doing-and does it well.

As an actor, the only pressure I have is to just be truthful and to do my best work.

The most important thing is to try to do your best.

Our philosophy is always to search for the best quality. That is something our father taught us. It's one way to be different from your competitors. You can try to be cheaper, or you can try to be better.

What I try to do is improve as much as I can so I can be the best bowler I possibly can.

The mental game is what separates the good players from the great players. So anything I can do to get that mental edge to help me stay my best, I'm gonna try and do it.

I'm pretty demanding with myself and my work, and I always put a lot of pressure on myself. I try to do the best job I can every time.

I try to keep things as simple as possible: my job as a javelin thrower is to stay in good shape and do my best at each competition.

Our goal isn't to make money. Our goal absolutely at Apple is not to make money. This may sound a little flippant, but it's the truth. Our goal, and what gets us excited, is to try to make great products.

Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your power.

You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.

The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.