Quotes About Excellence

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.

When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.

Good work ain't cheap, cheap work ain't good.

It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it ... Autograph your work with excellence.

What makes the difference between a great player and just a normal player is dedication, work, commitment.

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Average talent, plus hard work and dedication, will always beat talent by itself.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

You have to work hard AND well. There are a lot of people who work hard but not well.

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work.

You need to do the work to bring the money in, but not compromise standards.

Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.

Quality is such an attractive banner that sometimes we think we can get away with just waving it, without doing the hard work necessary to achieve it.

If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

Nobody goes to work to do a bad job.

It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.

I try to think about my goals. I think about my competitors-I know they're working hard, and if they are, I have to work hard too. I have to be one step ahead of them.

Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

True heros are made of hard work and integrity.