Excellence Quotes

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

"We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself."

"Today, and every day, deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive. You deserve them!"

"What a performance we're watching. It's just been a privilege to watch this kind of excellence."

"We seek excellence, by constant trial and error."

"As a friend and as a colleague, it's only fitting that we go in together. ... The way he's maintained excellence through all those years, Jim's had an incredible run."

"Excellence always sells"

"We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us."

"Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for."

"He represents the American tradition of excellence and honesty and integrity. In a sense, he was the Steven Spielberg of his time."

"To receive the Great 100 Award is a real honor. We are extremely proud of our nurses and the excellence they represent."

"It's hard to come into this stadium and win. You have to sustain a level of excellence for 40 minutes, and we didn't do it for 40. We probably did it for about 15."

"I start where the last man left off."

"Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it."

"Doing common things uncommonly well."

"The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous."

"It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity."

"From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race."

"Fs and Ds and incompletes aren't the American ideal and the American standard of excellence, not when it comes to protecting our people. We can do better. We must do better than that."

"The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying."