Quotes About Excellence

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don't make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off of you.

You are born to achieve beyond potential, let your every breath counts.

Leadership excellence requires a balanced mix of paradoxes. Leaders need to be visionary yet practical, teachers yet learners, and believers yet open-minded.

The city was a paradox, though maybe it had always been one. You could have an excellent life here, even as everything disintegrated. The city at that moment was not a place that anyone would remember with nostalgia, except for the fact that in the midst of all this, if you played it right, your money could double, and you could buy a big apartment with triple-glazed windows that overlooked the chaos.

I choose to excel, not compete - do you? I choose to make changes, not excuses - do you? To be motivated, not manipulated. To be useful, not used. I choose to live by choice, not by chance - do you?

YOU'RE GONNA GET BUMPED BY THE BEST MAN BRAND IN THE BUSINESS.

When I watch you on the ice...I don't think I have ever seen someone with that kind of talent you have. You can't teach that. The truth is, you're better than any of us. That feeling of proving yourself all the time? Use it. Let it drive you. Accept everything outside your control and go harder. Don't think about tomorrow, just think about right now.

Play like you're in first, train like you're in second,

Oh, yes!" said Arianna. "You're really good! One of the best.

By the time the clever reaches the clouds, the genius is already on the stars.

There is no attribute of the superior man greater than his helping men to practice virtue.

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.

Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I just might be.

It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.

When developing and designing products that invite people to use them, just do it right from the start and put your heart into it. It's harder and it takes longer, but everyone wins in the end.

The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do.

If you want to sustain excellence over a long time, you'd better come up with a system that works well. Anyone can sprint for a little while, but you can't sprint for forty years.

Everyday is a day in which to excel

The local bias in health care means that many providers offer services in which they lack the volume and experience to be truly excellent, and that excess capacity and the tendency for supply to create demand are almost guaranteed.

Capitalists say that all that matters is the bottom line. In fact, all that matters is the top line... the excellence and quality of the human race.

Meritocracy is a sacred cause, not profane. It is numinous. Meritocracy is about the glory and highest aspirations of the human race, not about letting people run around doing their own thing regardless of everyone else, and fretting over which hamburger to choose. If that's all you want from life, you might as well go and live in the jungle.

The American essayist William Deresiewicz wrote that "no real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.

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