Quotes About Commitment

Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting.

It takes more energy to maintain mediocrity than it takes to pursue excellence.

As for me, I am in pursuit of excellence. I have no time to get old.

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.

Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America.

Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.

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

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

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

If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun.

Channel your emotion into the excellence of doing something rather than the mediocrity of deciding whether or not to do it.

Be satisfied with nothing but your best.

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

Excellence isn't a one-week or one-year ideal. It's a constant.

Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.

The excellence of every Art is its intensity.

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.

It is ... impossible to keep one's excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted. On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice.

Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence. Excellence is Kingdom, while perfectionism is religion. What ever you do, do it with all you might, and as unto the Lord. That is excellence.

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

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

Lasting achievement, whatever the endeavor, comes from a commitment to excellence every step of the way.