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Quotes About Excellence

I don't want to be in this sport just to participate. I want to be in this to win, and that's what motivates me every day to break down barriers and to get better every time and to exceed my limits and to win fights.
~ Lyoto Machida
When I grew up, the idea that I had to be the best at everything I do was put in my head by my mother. This is just how I am. I'm not just here participating.
~ Valentina Shevchenko
The biggest clubs in Europe, whether they be Barcelona, Madrid, Manchester United, or Chelsea, always want to win, whatever they are participating in.
~ Michael Laudrup
I try to do my very best and hopefully that comes through, first to my partner, second of all with Dancing with the Stars, my employer, and third of all with the fans.
~ Valentin Chmerkovskiy
My team and I are excited to bring to our new partners at Roark the same energy and commitment to excellence that helped make our partnership with Weston Presidio so successful.
~ Jimmy John Liautaud
I want to be the best in life. In all parts in life, not just basketball.
~ Devin Booker
I don't care how small the parts are, as long as they're good.
~ Alan Ladd
If you give a party, you better give it right.
~ Aby Rosen
In the presence of greatness, pettiness disappears. In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails.
~ Peter M. Senge
To be great is to keep sweetness.
~ Peter Rock
You don't get credit because the program works. We're going to the next level. Working programs are a given,
~ Peter Seibel
Go has been known as one of the "Four Great Accomplishments" that any cultured person should master. The other three are painting, music, and calligraphy.
~ Peter Shotwell
If this were your first annual review with our company, what would I be telling you right now? A: You'd be thanking me for a job well done and would be explaining how you look forward to continuing to see good work from me. Furthermore, I would anticipate your explaining how you really appreciated my putting in extra time on some key projects and how my creative thinking helped come up with some innovative solutions to existing problems.
~ Peter Veruki
Perfection's unattainable but it isn't unapproachable, you
~ Peter Watts
Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.
~ Phil Knight
God's careful instructions for building the tabernacle remind us that his perfection sets the standard for whatever we create in his name.
~ Philip Graham Ryken
Goodness is both an ethical and an esthetic standard.
~ Philip Graham Ryken
A good company offers excellent products and services. A great company also offers excellent products and services but also strives to make the world a better place.
~ Philip Kotler
British universities
~ Philip Norton
I am an exemplary student, one who never misses a class, who almost always gets the best grades, who is the pride of his teachers.
~ Philippe Besson
Therefore my advice would encompass the following nine commandments: Do not get used to a sole body language. Do not establish a doctrine. Surprise yourself. Dream in a loud voice. Invent. Keep diligent, mysterious and secret. Have a just and generous heart. Compassion, yes; but no remorse. Acquire a thirst for excellence.
~ Philippe Petit
In him was vindicated the greatness of real goodness and the goodness of real greatness.
~ Phillips Brooks
As good as' always spells mediocrity. But when a writer's work is in competition with all those thousands of other manuscripts that pour over an editor's desk, he cannot afford to be 'as good as'; he (or she) must be 'better than.
~ Phyllis A. Whitney
Great people are attracted to great people and great visions.
~ Sal Khan