Quotes About Excellence

After failing four times and after working for other people and realizing that nobody paid attention to the food like they should have, we wanted to just pay attention to the food and service.

Don't try to be original; just try to be good.

Don't try to be original, just try to be good.

The ultimate goal should be doing your best and enjoying it.

The ambition should always be to play an elegant game.

There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you.

If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.

Best and brightest, come away!

If I can do it, I'll do it better than it was ever done before, and if I can't do that I'll quit to save you the embarrassment of firing me.

Why do anything unless it is going to be great?

Good enough, never is.

Only the second-rate never make mistakes.

Watch anyone enter their arena of real mastery and you see it, the growing bigger than themselves. Love that.

broader, a planet with more gravity than it had before. That was part of it. Watch anyone enter their arena of real mastery and you see it, the growing bigger than themselves. Love that.

Mediocrity recognizes nothing higher than itself. It takes talent to appreciate genius.

As for the saints in the land, they are the excellence in whom all my delight resides.

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will be stationed in the presence of kings; he will not stand before obscure men.

“Many daughters have done noble things, but you surpass them all!”

And the king spoke with them, and among all the young men he found no one equal to Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. So they entered the kingís service.

In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king consulted them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his entire kingdom.

Soon, by his extraordinary spirit, Daniel distinguished himself among the administrators and satraps. So the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom.

But eagerly desire the greater gifts. And now I will show you the most excellent way.

But just as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness, and in the love we inspired in you—see that you also excel in this grace of giving.

More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ