Quotes About Excellence

If you really want to be accepted by your peers, you'd do better to focus your energies on making yourself valuable to those around you. Being a good friend, a kind and helpful person, and someone who excels at what they do will go further to gain you acceptance than the stuff money can buy.

A good person only is worthy of a high position and can become the king of a nation.

Anwar Sadat once said that if you see a good person with admirable qualities, try to adapt those qualities to yourself, and he was such a great man.

In this program anyway, winning's more valuable than being a good person.

You were designed to succeed, at everything you set your mind to. Now go do what you got to do. Be awesome, be you and succeed.

This is your time, your moment so make the most of it. Be awesome, push yourself, challenge yourself and make this year your best year ever!

The task of being awesome is a lot harder than being average and that's why so many people fall short. Don't settle for less than you deserve. Be Awesome Or Be Forgotten!

The fear in being great is the return to mediocrity but if you grow with God each day will be blessed. He won't build you up to leave you.

If I die Imma do it reppin, I'll never do it second.

If you do it right, it will last forever.

Whatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved

There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.

Simplicity is the final achievement.

If something is not good enough, stop doing it.

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

Stick to your knitting (what you're good at), don't compromise, and don't suffer fools.

I believe that quality level is determined primarily by the actual design of the product itself, not by quality control in the production process.

Having first rate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom.

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake.

The will to prepare, the guts to risk, and the desire to be the best. These are trademarks of champions.

If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition.

Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.

Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.