Quotes About Success

There is no excellency without difficulty.

All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!

Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually distinct . . . and are experienced differently.

You're only as good as your last story.

Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.

The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

Excellence is a choice, and you must make that choice over and over again until "doing your best" is all you know.

The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence.

No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.

Excellence isn't as much about being the best as it is about being the best you can be, and being better than you were before.

Relentlessly pursue perfection knowing we won't catch it, but in the process we'll achieve excellence.

Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence.

Competition breeds excellence, including in the GOP race.

Failure is the price of excellence.

Excellence is never an accident.

It's just really about trying to do whatever it is I do at a level of excellence. That's really all I'm trying to do while I'm here.

If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?

You gotta become. Not do things in excellence. You gotta become excellent.

You cannot learn very much about excellence from studying failure.

I really believe that the single hardest thing in business is building a company that does repeatable innovation... and just has this ongoing culture of excellence as it grows.

The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.

Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.

Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.