Quotes About Excellence

Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.

The most talented people are always the nicest.

A man must...not be content to do things well, but must also aim to do them gracefully.

Wisdom and courage make mutual contributions to greatness.

Wisdom is what separates average people from extraordinary people.

The really great athletes make their news on the field, not off the field.

you should work like a master and not as a slave; work incessantly, but do not do slave's work.

His father, Joshua Wooden, had repeatedly stressed he should never try to be better than someone else, but that he should never cease to try and become the best that he could be.

Coach Wooden preached against comparisons and external rewards, and for focusing on becoming your best.

Coach Wooden's philosophy is for players and students to improve a little every day and make perfection the goal. His method for improving conditioning included one painful demand—each player, when reaching the point of exhaustion, was to push himself beyond. When this is done every day, top condition will be attained over time.

yo realmente no hago nada. No soy chef. Simplemente les permito hacer lo que ellos hacen tan bien. Son los mejores

Otro atributo importante que comparten los superjefes es la competitividad. Cuando nos fijamos en los superjefes, sentimos su sangre competitiva corriendo por sus venas. Ellos prosperan en ella, la buscan y la crean.

Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity

If you want to fly with the eagles, don't swim with the ducks!

Greatness inspires greatness. Creativity inspires creativity. When you align yourself with people who inspire you and help draw out the best in you, you find your best self.

Preparation is never time wasted. You cannot have great recitals, if you have poor rehearsals.

Je?li chcesz osi?gn?? doskona?e wyniki, potrzebujesz doskona?ego paliwa. Nie mo?esz tak po prostu nasika? do baku.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Where there is no standard, there can be no improvement.

the best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile

In Aristotle's words, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

I believe you can only be lucky if you start out being very good

There have only been two geniuses in the world — Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare.

I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.