Quotes About Excellence

Intelligence is an elegance of excellence with an endurance of empathy, efficiency and effervescence of self-reliance with self-confidence besides an effective respect for independence and ignorance.

Real confidence comes not from talking all you can, but from giving the best you can...

Great people develop themselves by aiming to be the best and consistently working hard for it.

No one is born great, Great people develop themselves by aiming for the best and working hard for it.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.

Always believe you can be the best ever. Always believe there is no one like you. Always believe in yourself.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.

Never apologize for showing your high standards. The people who are tending to stay will rise up to meet them.

Be best version of yourself. Do the best. Believe in what you can do, and than you will be able to proof your worthiness. You are stronger than what you think of yourself, only you will have to believe in your capability.

He who chooses to be a master never does just enough to get by; nor does he cut corners or attempt to cheat the system. He who chooses mastery lives his life asking, 'How can I do more, give more, be more, and thereby accelerate the achievement of my ultimate destiny?'

Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, youre the best.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.

Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .

Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect.

This was something few followers of fashion ever saw – the long hours of hard, highly skilled labour that went into the production of each item of haute couture. Beauty came at the cost of tired eyes, aching shoulders and worn fingers.

Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.

Don't whine. Don't complain. And don't check out. Make the most of the situation. Do little things like they are big things. Keep a good attitude. And faithfully carry out your current obligations. If your job isn't exciting, then bring some excitement to the job. One of the greatest acts of worship is keeping a good attitude in a bad situation. And doing a good job at a bad job honors God. It will also open doors of opportunity down the road. It did for Nehemiah.

Playing the man means playing hard—giving God everything you've got. It's leaving it all out on the court. The gold standard is Colossians 3:23, which says, Whatever you do, work at it with all of your heart, as working for the Lord. A literal translation could read: "Do it like your life depends on it." In other words, give it everything you've got. Don't just make a living. Make a life.

You could, he believed, divide the combat wing commanders into three categories; those who wanted to make general, those who wanted to make Ace, and those who wanted to protect their pilots. The truly exceptional ones wanted to do all three in reverse order.

The NBA is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.