Quotes About Excellence

Admiration of great men, living or dead, naturally evokes imitation of them in a greater or less degree.

With whatever time is left to you, play your part well — perfectly. Play it as you want to be remembered. No more can anyone ask of us or can we ask of ourselves.

There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

The corporal's morale is excellent verging on sublime, sir.

Anyone who wears a tiara and sequins is always going to be the winner.

It's better to get things right than to get them fast.

Kebaikan merupakan milik kita yang terbaik dalam bentuk yang cantik.

It goes as it does,Argetlam.You cannot hurry perfection.

m doing my best no,this isn't your best. We shall recognize your best when it appears

Appreciation of beauty is a strength that connects someone directly to excellence. Gratitude connects someone directly to goodness.

one could not attain greater personal excellence without also paving the way for everyone else in society to attain it as well.

If you do the right thing well, you avoid futility.

Often, they said, it is the most talented engineers who have the hardest time learning when to stop striving for perfection. West

Do we really have to talk about professionalism? Everyone here is a professional. A master builder who puts up a wall that hasn't collapsed is certainly acting professionally, but professionalism ought to be the norm, and we should only be talking about the dodgy builder who puts up a wall that doesn't collapse....This insistence on professionalism, that it is something special, makes it sound as if people are generally lousy workers.

was one of the fixed laws of the universe that Americans could beat Europeans at anything, once they put their minds to it.

But she was a good boss, Sam. The best I've ever had.

How will you select your trading markets? Being a good trader in a great market is better than being a superb trader in an average market. Thus, what will you do to select your trading markets?

Within each individual on this large and complicated world there lives an astounding potential for greatness.

Jim Collins, author of Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… And Others Don't

If your competitive advantage depends on your people creating something valuable and distinctive, then your workforce can't be normal.

Practice what we preach • Nothing less than ecstatic customers • First class for less • Honor intellectual capitalists • Everyone an entrepreneur • Never, ever, ever give up

How can we expect our employees to be extraordinary and differentiate the company if we use the same hiring and onboarding methods as competitors?

General George S. Patton may have been uncouth, but he wasn't wrong when he bellowed, "Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser.

Mexica warriors were predicated on birth and status. In a cyclical pattern of cause and effect, such greater innate advantages gave aristocrats predominance on the battlefield in taking captives, which in turn provided proof of their martial excellence—and