#Excellence Quotes

“Good wine needs no bush.”

“Take pains. Be perfect.”

“Still constant is a wondrous excellence.”

“Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.”

“Every man who would do anything well, must come to it from a higher ground.”

“We aim above the mark to hit the mark.”

“There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.”

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

“If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.”

“Just saying you are better than good won't make it so. But, when you understand what it takes to live the better than good life, and you apply yourself, your life will truly be better than good.”

“Half-heartedne ss doesn't reach into majesty.”

“Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.”

“Say "no" to the good and say "yes" to the best.”

“I am easily satisfied with the very best.”

“What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.”

“There's no traffic jam on the extra mile.”

“Success is in the details.”

“Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.”

“There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile.”

“Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.”

“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 moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.”

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

“I don't see how he lost five games during the season.”

“I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five.”

“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.”

“No crime is so great as daring to excel.”

“I am always going to do my best, no matter where I am.”

“Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.”

“You don't need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.”

“Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.”

“This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.”

“Intensity is the price of excellence.”

“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.”

“You can't succeed by being good. That's what you get paid for. You can't succeed by being excellent. That's what you're expected to do. You can only succeed by being outstanding.”

“A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.”

“Most players go where the puck is. I go where the puck will be.”

“Good players skate to the puck. Great players skate to where the puck is going to be.”

“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”

“Genius: the superhuman in man.”

“By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.”

“If we habitually focus on how to improve things that are already great, can you see how this spirit can transform ourselves, our organizations, families and communities?”

“I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.”

“Always fight for quality, whether giving or receiving.”

“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.”

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

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”

“Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.”

“The art of art... is simplicity.”