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Quotes About Excellence

Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.
~ Marcus Buckingham
The excellence of this important contribution to genre literature CANNOT be overstated A masterwork.
~ William F. Nolan
Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.
~ Bill Sands
People of excellence will always be brought before people of influence.
~ Bill Johnson
There is no excellence in archery without great labour.
~ Maurice Thompson
The hallmark of excellence, the test of greatness, is consistency.
~ Jim Tressel
Quality doesn't mean we have to be 100 percent better in any one thing; it means we strive to be 1 percent better in 100 things.
~ Jan Carlzon
Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting.
~ Nick Murray
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
~ Aristotle
We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.
~ Charles Fourier
It takes more energy to maintain mediocrity than it takes to pursue excellence.
~ Matthew Kelly
Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.
~ Laurence Olivier
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Always define your area of excellence. Establish the area where you will be the best.
~ Farrah Gray
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
As for me, I am in pursuit of excellence. I have no time to get old.
~ Will Eisner
Excellence does not begin in Washington.
~ Ronald Reagan
Excellence always sells.
~ Earl Nightingale
It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.
~ Brad Henry
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.
~ David Ogilvy
I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
I believe excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over.
~ Jay-Z
We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.
~ Aristotle