Quotes About Excellence

People forget how fast you did a job -- but they remember how well you did it.

Just because it's a bad job doesn't mean I need to do it badly.

A free society can survive only with men and women of integrity. Mediocrity can destroy us just as surely as perils far more famous. In a society that is willing to accept mediocrity, the opportunity for failure is boundless.

Let's do it right. This is for the ages.

Be the best, not necessarily the original.

Excellence is the gateway to an infinite world of possibilities

I came to the realization that I needed to become my best self in order to attract the kind of guy I would want to marry. If I wanted someone truly fabulous, I had better become truly fabulous first.

I remembered my father used to tell me that whatever you choose to do, be a professional.

If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.

Correct teaching brings out human excellence.

La enseñanza correcta saca a relucir la excelencia humana.

Cuando el Hombre Superior hace algo digno de admiración, es una prueba de su Maestría, no el objeto de ella.

Organization doesn't really accomplish anything. Plans don't accomplish anything, either. Theories of management don't much matter. Endeavors succeed or fail because of the people involved. Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds.

The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.

I'm not perfect but I'll be the creator of perfection.

If you take the pay, earn it. Always do your very best. Even when no one else is looking, you always are. Don't disappoint yourself.

Standards must be achievable (though achieving them will always require extra effort), and the leaders must provide the means to get there. The focus should always be on getting better and better. We must always reach for the better way.

You know what? You just suck it up and get started again. It's a new day in which to excel.

Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity, An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people

Freedom to be your best means nothing unless you are wiling to do your best.

All work is honorable. Always do your best, because someone is watching.

To achieve his purpose, a successful leader must set demanding standards and make sure they are met. Followers want to be "in a good outfit," as we say in the Army. I never saw a good unit that wasn't always stretching to meet a higher standard. The stretching was often accompanied by complaints about the effort required. But when the new standard was met, the followers celebrated with high-fives, pride, and playful gloating.

These experiences established a pattern for all the years and careers that came afterward. Always do your best, no matter how difficult the job, or how much you dislike it, your bosses, the work environment, or your fellow workers. As the old expression goes, if you take the king's coin, you give the king his due.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting in above-average effort.