Quotes About Excellence

There are several ways to perform almost any act - an efficient, workable, artistic way and a careless, indifferent, sloppy way. Care and artistry are worth the trouble. They can be a satisfaction to the practitioner and a joy to all beholders.

It is my business as a Sunday school teacher to instill a divine discontent for the ordinary. Only the best possible is good enough for God. Can you say, 'God, I have done all that I can?

Great men are the true men, the men in whom Nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary--they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.

Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind.

Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.

Whenever you attempt a good work you will find other men doing the same kind of work, and probably doing it better. Envy them not.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Don't cheapen the product; don't cheapen the wage; don't overcharge the public. Put brains into the method, and more brains, and still more brains—do things better than ever before; and by this means all parties to business are served and benefited.

2. A disregard of competition. Whoever does a thing best ought to be the one to do it. It is criminal to try to get business away from another man—criminal because one is then trying to lower for personal gain the condition of one's fellow man—to rule by force instead of by intelligence.

Abbiamo bisogno di persone brave, non solo di brave persone.

Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.

To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.

If your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.

The best is the enemy of the good,

Zappa warned you of the threat of mediocrity in music.

The quality will remain when the price is forgotten.

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very quiet if only those birds sing there that sang best.

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Be noble in every thought And in every deed!

A banner with the strange device,Excelsior!