Quotes About Excellence

Excellence demands that you be better than yourself. – Ted Engstrom

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

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing…and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team! – Lou Holtz

Winning doesn’t always mean being first. Winning means you’re doing better than you’ve ever done before. – Bonnie Blair

Quality doesn’t mean we have to be 100 percent better in any one thing; it means we strive to be 1 percent better in 100 things. – Jan Carlzon

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just. – Anita Roddick

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives. – Willa A. Foster

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. – Ralph Marsten

The only sin is mediocrity. – Martha Graham

Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character. – T. Alan Armstrong

The definition of happiness….the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. – John F. Kennedy

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek. – Mario Andretti

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. – Confucius

Just do what you do best. – Red Auerbach

Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence – natural ability notwithstanding. – Stephen Covey

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer. – Rick Pitino

It’s a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so. – Georges Bernanos

If you don’t do it excellently, don’t do it at all. Because if it’s not excellent, it won’t be profitable. If it is not excellent, it won’t be fun and if you’re not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing here? – Robert Townsend

When I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest. – Georgia O’Keeffe

Life’s like a play; it’s not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters. Seneca Quote

Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals. – David Ogilvy

It’s the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class. – J. Willard Marriott

Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come. – Perry Paxton

Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary. – Samuel Mockbee

Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade. – Tom Peters

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. – Colin Powell Quote

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. – John W. Gardner

The compulsion to excellence assures excitement! – Robert Schuller

If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you. – T. Alan Armstrong

I would rather perform at 90 percent of an excellence standard than at 110 percent of an adequacy standard. – Don Beveridge

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. – Thomas J. Watson

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best. – Marva Collins

I want you to start a crusade in your life – to dare to be your best. – William Danforth

Good, better, best; never rest till “good” be “better” and “better” best. – Mother Goose

I am easily satisfied with the very best. – Winston Churchill Quote

Some people may have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. They achieve it. They do not achieve it unwillingly, by doin’ what comes naturally, and they don’t stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose. – John Gardner, Excellence

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. – Pat Riley

If you believe in unlimited quality and act in all your business dealings with total integrity, the rest will take care of itself. – Frank Perdue

It is a wretched waste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us. – Isaac D’Israel

There are no speed limits on the road to excellence. – Unknown

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation. – Horace Quote

Whatever I have tried to do in my life, I have tried with all my heart to do well. What I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely. – Charles Dickens

Refuse to be average. – A.W. Tozer

In order to deal with the chaos that exists in the world today, you need some grounding. That grounding best comes from knowing who you are. – Michael Ray

Ain’t no man that can avoid being born average, but ain’t nobody got to be common. – Satchel Paige

The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field or endeavor. – Vince Lombardi