Quotes About Excellence

He who ceases to be better, ceases to be good.

Better is not good enough; the best is yet to come!

Immortality is a by-product of good work.

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.

I think it's incredible because there were guys like (Willie) Mays and (Mickey) Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years.

It's not hard being great occasionally. It's difficult to be good consistently.

I'm not interested in the difference between good and bad, I'm interested in the differences between good and great.

I have never seen a good organization where the standards weren't high.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

Good ideas, like good pickles, are crisp, enduring, and devilishly hard to make.

I know I'm a good professional, I know that no one's harder on me than myself and that's never going to change, under any circumstances.

A good character today is shaped by greatness, greatness in vision, greatness in courage, greatness in insight, greatness in purpose and devotion.

I am a perfectionist. When I take a picture...it's gotta be good.

A company can seize extra-ordinary opportunities only if it is very good at the ordinary operations.

I just want to do the best possible job with everything that I do. But I'm far more concerned with being a good father as opposed to being a good actor because that's what's really going to matter.

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest.

Ive always been ambitious to be very good at what I do.

I'm an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don't get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile.

The danger of having too close deadlines... It could lead you to just accept an avenue that's not quite good enough.

The NBA is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

It is typically Norwegian to be good

If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection.