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Quotes About Excellence

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
~ Joe Paterno
Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.
~ Louise Brooks
All you owe the public is a good performance.
~ Humphrey Bogart
Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.
~ Mike Krzyzewski
Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!
~ Pat Riley
Adequacy is the enemy of excellence.
~ Peter Drucker
I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.
~ Ludacris
The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
~ Tom Peters
PHYSIOGNOMY, n. The art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
~ Aristotle
Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
~ Anton Chekhov
Excellence does not require perfection.
~ Henry James
Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery.
~ Tony Buzan
Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
~ Tom Peters
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
~ William Ellery Channing
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
~ Philip James Bailey
Strive for excellence in few things, rather than good performance in many.
~ Richard Koch
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Excellence is a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.
~ Shaquille O'Neal
Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.
~ James C. Collins
If we commit ourselves to the successful completion of a task, then we personify excellence.
~ Nik Halik
Persons with a talent who never practice excellence are the worst enemies of themselves.
~ Nelly Mazloum
The expectation level is high at the University of Alabama and it should be. What's wrong with people expecting excellence?
~ Gene Stallings
It's better to do one thing well than ten things poorly.
~ Heather Hart