Excellence Quotes

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

"The achievement of excellence can only occur if the organization promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction."

...people who are great at something are not so much convinced of their own greatness as mystified at why everyone else seems so incompetent.

People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it.

Excellence is not a singular act but a habit. You are what you do repeatedly.

We are what we continuously do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.

[When Passion, Ability and Profitability come together], you might gain that rare tranquility that comes from knowing that you’ve had a hand in creating something of intrinsic excellence that makes a contribution. Indeed, you might even gain that deepest of all satisfactions: knowing that your short time here on this earth has been well spent, and that it mattered.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Usually I object when someone makes overmuch of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.

The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power.

Socialism everywhere expresses envy of excellence by treating the contributions and wealth of the successful as the wages of sin.