Quotes About Excellence

Lisa Renee Jones

volleyball. Even being "almost the best" would be alright.

The best way for you to gain confidence is to prepare so well on something ... that there can be little chance to fail.

You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate.

If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds.

Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection.

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow isthe higher achievement.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.

Winning is not a sometime thing: it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do the right thing once in a while; you do them right all the time. Winning is a habit.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

The quality of each man's life is the full measure of that man's personal commitment to excellence and to victory.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well; and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame.

I always love when everybody else is really bringing their game, because it's only going to make the movie better; it just makes you work harder and they work harder and everybody is trying to get their little bit in. It's competitive in a constructive way.

Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.

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.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

You have to be first, different, or great. If you're one of them, you may make it.

I say this is about as close to perfect as anything can be. Good God, hellion, I don't think I could take much more perfection and live through it." "Every

Try not to become a person of success, but rather a person of value.

Far too many couples settle for mediocrity in their marriage when they would never settle for second-best in other areas of their life.

As a whole, people suck. But a person can be extraordinary