Quotes About Excellence

Only by being obsessed with little things do amazing things emerge.

Nastia Liukin, I was obsessed with her. And I say was, but really am obsessed with her. She's just so amazing.

I have always wanted to be the best, and it drives me every day, no matter the obstacle.

I'm about big challenges, big obstacles, and just to show everybody that I'm the best.

I just always expect the best because I'm a competitor and if I'm competing, then obviously I'm trying to be better in everything.

I competed hard in the heat of the battle, and there were a few occasions where I played my best in the top matches. As for the best ever? I don't think so.

Wanted: a man who is larger than his calling, who considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living.

Perhaps the measure of the best art is that it does not excite envy.

A major key to success in this life, to attaining that which you deeply desire, is to be completely released and throw all there is of yourself into your studies or any project in which you are engaged. In other words, whatever you are doing, give it all you've got.

The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what the task may be. This is a habit followed by all successful people since the beginning of time. Therefore I saith the surest way to doom yourself to mediocrity is to perform only the work for which you are paid.

I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.

Wenn du Erfolg haben willst, bringe Höchstleistungen. Wenn du das Beste willst, was dir die Welt zu bieten hat, dann biete ihr das Beste von dir.

KusursuzluÄŸu küçük ÅŸeyler oluÅŸturur; ama kusursuzluk küçük bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir.

These three elements of contained chaos—white space, unusual suspects, and planned serendipity—can help both large businesses and small start-ups to introduce more innovation, drive growth, and propel excellence.

Personal nobility is greater than any calling, or any reward that it can bring.

Nature hates all botched and half-finished work, and will pronounce her curse upon it.

Aim at perfection in everything?, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. — Chesterfield.

Dig, dig the foundation deep, young man. Plant firmly the outer wall; Let the props be strong and the roof be high. Build it well, whatever you do; Build it straight and strong and true; Build it clean and high and broad; Build it for the eye of God.

The more you know of your own line of work, by so much do you set yourself a little apart from a hundred of your competitors who are content to let well enough alone.

Build slow and sure; 'tis for life, young man. In the elder days of art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the gods see everywhere. — Longfellow.

The highest reputation in every department of human exertion is reserved for minds of one faculty, where no rival powers divide the empire of the soul, and where there is no variety of pursuits to distract and perplex its energies.

You killed more people than anybody in history. Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.