Quotes About Excellence

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.

Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.

Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding.

When I bought the Rolls Royce they thought it was leased, then I bought that new Ferrari hater rest in peace.

The absence of risk is a sure sign of mediocrity.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.

My personal coaching philosophy, my mentality, has always been to make things as difficult as possible for players in practice, however bad we can make them, I make them.

My philosophy? Practice, practice, practice and win.

My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence.

You might reduce Lombardi's coaching philosophy to a single sentence: In any game, you do the things you do best and you do them over and over and over.

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

My philosophy is that everything starts with a great product.

There is no gap as wide as the one between mediocrity and genius.

With type as with philosophy, music and food, it is better to have a little of the best than to be swamped with the derivative, the careless, the routine.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

There isn't an end point to excellence where you have it and you can stop. Being your best self means keeping on trying.

Nothing great can be achieved without great love.

The point wasn't always to do what you want. The point was to do what you did and to do it well.

Every person may not be great, but there is some greatness in every person.