Quotes About Excellence

The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whether it's in the arts, sciences, or business.

I don't have the desire to be the best standup in the UK but I do have the desire to be the best at everything else I do in terms of writing and acting.

Trying your best is bringing your best... that's the way to do it! Desire and passion is everything.

Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them.

Federer can be the best ever; he has the potential. The only question is whether he has the desire

In Italy there is a supreme know-how and a desire to achieve that doesn't really exist anywhere else. You can't make clothes like that in America, because it's just not in the tradition.

Delicacy in shaping desires of any kind will help to reach excellence, but failure will bring disaster.

There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.

There is no glory in otustripping donkeys.

What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

Education is what allows you to stand out

My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).

In 50 years, there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education and Udacity has a shot at being one of them.

I want to do the best I can and let everyone else worry about legacies.

You have to stay one level above everyone else.

I didn't want to be like everyone else. I wanted to be better. If I did what everybody else did, then why would you look up to me? Why would I set an example?

I think I'm as good if not better than everyone else.

I'm only interested in being better than everyone else thought you could be.

I come out to do what everyone else is trying to do, which is run, run fast and win.

The best thing you can do is having to say no to putting out something that's good, because everything else is better.

If we win and I play well, everything else will be taken care of.

I'll continue to face great challenges, stay on top for a long time, continue to evolve, and continue to prove with facts that I'm the best.

The world gets better as soon as people start doing exactly what they're great at.