Quotes About Achievement

If you strive for excellence, success will follow

We don't settle for anything less than excellence.

Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.

Excellence in anything increases your potential in everything.

When you begin moving toward excellence, you will find very little competition. You're competing with only 20% of the population.

Excellence isn't achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You've got to have both.

Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.

Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.

I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good.

In every kind of endeavor, there are ample opportunities for extra effort. Grab those opportunities, embrace that extra effort and transform ordinary mediocrity into bright and shining excellence.

In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

Be satisfied with nothing but your best.

Ive zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself.

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.

If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable commitment to excellence.

I have a 41-year track record of investing excellence… what do you have?

There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

I don't think about being male or female, I just behave naturally. I think in terms of excellence in science, not gender.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

Aim not to win or succeed, but for excellence in the moment.

Once you understand what excellence is all about... you see how that excellence manifests itself in any discipline.