Quotes About Excellence

Tolerating mediocrity is as dangerous as inviting failure

The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.

Worship is giving God the best that He has given you.

God's grace produces men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not pampered, spoiled weaklings. It takes a tremendous amount of discipline to live the worthy and excellent life of a disciple of Jesus in the realities of life. And it is always necessary for us to make an effort to live a life of worth and excellence.

Never dull your sense of being your utmost for His highest—your best for His glory.

The things that are right, noble, and good from the natural standpoint are the very things that keep us from being God's best. Once we come to understand that natural moral excellence opposes or counteracts surrender to God, we bring our soul into the center of its greatest battle.

Let a man be either a hero or a saint. In between lies, not wisdom, but banality.

Hay que ser héroe o santo. En el término medio no está la sabiduría, sino la vulgaridad

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

How do you like that, Corbray? You're upstaging yourself.

You were always the best, she whispered.

La competizione non è per tutti e soprattutto non seleziona i migliori, solo i meno sensibili.

You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you.

There is no downside to winning. It feels forever fabulous.

Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.

You'll be finished when it's done. And it's not done till it's done right.

She coached every day like it was the national championship game. Every practice was coached like that. It was never a letup. I can't ever remember a day where she was tired, ever. —MICKIE DEMOSS

One must know a bad performance to know a good one. You can't be middle-of-the-road about it, just as you can't be middle-of-the-road about life. I mean, you can't say about Hitler, I can take him or leave him. Well, I can't be middle-of-the-road about a performance, especially my own. I feel that if I can vomit at seeing a bad performance, I'm ahead of the game.

Your importance is not in a title, it is in the excellence of your actions.

Deliver more than you promise.

Perfect is close enough.

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