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Quotes About Excellence

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
~ Nelson Mandela
Excellence is ever changing dynamism in our personal journey of growth and maturity. Excellence is ever growing personal and collective best. Excellence demands hard work, determination and ways of focusing which makes continually getting better & better.
~ Unknown
Doing your very best is the most rewarding game of achievement, your best is always going to make differences in any event of your life's journey.
~ Unknown
You can't always be the best at everything, but you can always give your best at everything.
~ Unknown
Your first duty is to be yourself. You can't always get what you want, but if you try you just might get what you need. Rowing harder doesn't help if you're headed in the wrong direction. Never ask more or less of yourself than your best.
~ Unknown
Finding greatness within yourself is what can set you apart from many...
~ Unknown
Do your best, give your best and know that in doing so youll enhance the quality of your life.
~ Unknown
Im not jealous, I'm just tired of being in second place.
~ Unknown
Being unique is better than being perfect!
~ Unknown
Being the best is great, I'm number one. But being unique is greater, I'm the only one.
~ Unknown
Being the best is great, your the number one. Being unique is greater, your the only one.
~ Unknown
Being the best is great, you're number 1. But being unique is greater, you're the only one.
~ Unknown
Being the best is great, you're number one; but being unique is greater, you're the only one.
~ Unknown
There can be no one better than yourself, so be the best version of you because no one is born to represent another.
~ Gugu Mona
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!
~ Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
You cannot learn very much about excellence from studying failure.
~ Marcus Buckingham
Spend the most time with your best people. ... Talent is the multiplier. THe more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time. ... Persistence directed primarily toward your non-talents is self-destructive. ... You will reprimand yourself, berate yourself, and put yourself through all manner of contortions in an attempt to achieve the impossible.
~ Marcus Buckingham
Define excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and pushing toward the right-hand edge of the bell curve.
~ Marcus Buckingham
Pay no attention to the man who criticizes unless he is doing something better than what he criticizes.
~ Marcus Garvey
Africa has produced countless numbers of men and women, in war and in peace, whose lustre and bravery outshine that of any other people. Then why not see good and perfection in ourselves?
~ Marcus Garvey
and it might be only small things that separate guys who are very good from guys who are absolutely excellent, outstanding.
~ Marcus Luttrell
And a short nod of respect is in order, because it's harder to become a Navy SEAL than it is to get into Harvard Law School. Different, but harder.
~ Marcus Luttrell
I give it everything. On time. Every time. Might not always be good enough, but it's always my very best shot.
~ Marcus Luttrell