Quotes About Excellence

You are the crowing glory. Remember your splendor.

She was perfect; otherwise she was perfect

to write only when you're inspired devalues the craft and defies your need to learn and improve. If you're committed to excellence in writing, you accept responsibility to do everything you can for your own self-improvement.

Athletes push themselves to the limit during workouts so they can expand those limits for the real performances. They let the ugliness happen behind closed doors—not when they're actually working.

Take calculated risks with your career. Don't let fear consume you. And if you're not having fun, you're not going to be excellent.

Studying the work of masters is an essential part of becoming amaster.

A person becomes great not by sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. A crow does not become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

Ultimately the work has to command the podium. - David J. Schow

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

successful firms do flourish by holding fast to fundamental values: sticking to the right path; taking the long-term view; and insisting always on quality and excellence.

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.

You'll live. Only the best get killed.

France cannot be France without greatness.

a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.

I thought her looking as she always does: superior in all respects to everyone around her

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

Friend, don't look at your circumstances or try to cut corners. Do your best wherever God has placed you and trust Him to lift you up (1 Peter 5:5–6). Wherever you are, work with excellence, and trust He will lead you on the path of blessing.

Only a mediocre team is always at its best

The method of doubt must be applied to civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

relentlessly strive to come up with new and better products and produce them more efficiently than the alternatives.

Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.