Excellence Quotes

We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won't ever be perfect - but in the process we will achieve greatness.

There's no traffic jam on the extra mile.

Genius: the superhuman in man.

Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it.

The seventh factor of the basic ingredients of genius, as determined from an extensive analysis of the lives of outstanding men of this nation, is *the habit of going the extra mile.* You will never be a genius unless you make it a habit to do more and better than you are paid to do, every single day of your life.

I worry so much. Like, 'Damn, how can I be excellent?' But it's a journey.

Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude

Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.

I want to be one of the best players around in two or three years time, to be a decisive footballer.

Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.

To be successful you don't need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.

Do the very best that you can, in the things you do best, and you will know in thy soul, that you are the greatest success in the world.

I don't want to do anything halfway. It has to be perfect.

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'

Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.

Do anything better than it was ever done before and youll get rich.

Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.Foroneswallowdoesnot makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

A-plus players like to work together and they don't like it if you tolerate B work.

It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people.

At United, there are great traditions, which you can't buy in one or two years. They are created by victories. You need to prove again and again that you are better than the others. Manchester United have always done this, and are still doing it, so they are the best.

If you know you're the best it only makes sense for you to surround yourself with the best.

I'd like to be remembered not only for my body of work but also for specific novels. Ideally, I want to be remembered in the same way as Stephen King, who defined and exemplified excellence in the horror genre in the late 20th and early 21st century.

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

I've been watching Messi for some time now, and his ability to decide games and keep possession of the ball is amazing.

A lot of people can play the piano, but not everyone can be Billy Joel.

I'm playing against great players, playing against the best in the world. The competition-that's what I've always wanted.

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

It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.

No man has done everything he can who has done only his best.

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

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.

There is never a bad time to start a business - unless you want to start a mediocre one.

Do a good job. You don't have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work - then try to trump it.

Over deliver in all you do and soon you will be rewarded for the extra effort.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: An absolute sense of mission.

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

Recognise excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs should be cherished, if they can do something other people can't do.

We alchemists look for talent that can heat up and change. Lukewarm won't do. Halfhearted holding back, well-enough getting by? Not here.

I always want to be the best at whatever I'm attempting to do.

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

But in my mind, I don't think there's any question Sidney Crosby is the best all-around player in the game. His hockey sense is so strong and so solid, combined with his God-gifted talent of being able to see the ice, see the entire picture in front of him. And, most importantly, I don't care how good you are, if you don't have a work ethic, it doesn't matter. There's no question that each and every game, he's one of the hardest-working guys on the ice. In my mind, he's the best player in the game today.

I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I'd never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field.

Artists and creative workers - people who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They haven't been contented with mediocrity. They haven't confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others do them, but always a little better. Few are those who see with their own eyesand feel with their own hearts.

Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe mediocrity. It seems to say, "If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me.

Do your best at every job. Don't sleep! Success generates more success so be hungry for it. Hire good people with a passion for excellence.

We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.

Intensity is the price of excellence.

When you do your best, people notice.

Excellence is going the extra mile.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.