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Excellence Quotes


"What does easy or hard have to do with anything? Excellence is your standard."


"Being mindful of your body movement, facial expressions, voice tone, gestures, orientation, postures, and touch will help you project personal excellence for transforming your communications with others."


"Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort."


"And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don't just set out to do a good job. Set out to do such a good job that the living, the dead or the unborn couldn't do it any better. If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well."


"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."


"There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority."


"Excellence is not an event but a habit."



"Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively."


"Over time, repetition brings perfection, which brings success."


"Let these 2 quotes sink in. In tandem together. "A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves as something to aim at." - Bruce Lee "Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence. - Vince Lombardi The key here is thing to take away from the tandem of these quotes is that even those you will never achieve perfection, the fact that you will aim towards unfathomable goals you will along the journey catch greatness."


"Excellence is the target of champions and winners."


"As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial."


"Excellence is the jet engine, that pushes you faster and higher to success."


"Excellence is a journey and a constant process. It is never a final destination. Have fun and enjoy it as a lifetime self-improvement program. Polish yourself for excellence. Glitter and sparkle for success."



"Passion is never enough neither is skill."


"Excellent people are those, who choose to separate themselves from mediocrity."


"People of excellence go the extra mile to do what's right."



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


"We rise, we fall.Life is a lesson.But, if not lived with the heart,holds no depth, no meaning.We must feel pain, to feel the joy, to feel the pain, and so on, so forth.It requires great courage.I try with all my mightto hold gratitude in the lesson.Thank you universe for showing mefor teaching me."


"The only way when your thirst for excellence is satisfied is when you take up the challenge to do a little more every day than you have already been doing every day!"


"Become so good they can't ingore you, and you are on the path to success. Become so good they can't stand you, and you are on the path to greatness."


"Art needs no victory because it is already the victory of the meticulous mind!"


"Not failure but low aim is crime."


"I live my life progressing for nothing else but the best."


"A restless human heart always seeks to increase personal understanding and works to attain excellence."


"Excellence is a habit acquired by continuous improvement on the little things you do with a firm belief that it's going to be better than before!"


"Develop yourself from practice to become exceptional. Aim to be the blue ribbon best."


"Each person you admire is simply a reminder of your own latent excellence, your own unacknowledged beauty."



"Remember, each of us needs to be the best in our field."


"An excellence mind pursues perfecting, not perfection."


"Everybody is standing, but you must stand out.Everybody is breaking grounds; but you must breakthrough!Everybody scratching it; but you must scratch it hard!Everybody is going, but you must keep going extra miles!Dare to be exceptionally excellent and why not?"



"But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation."


"Climb the ladder of success, by always presenting your best self. Practice being exceptional at what you do."


"If you want to be excellent at something, you must move away from your comfort zone, overcome doubt, setbacks and failure. Never give up. Keep plugging away and being persistent. One day, success will be yours."


"If you're not aiming at perfection, you're not trying hard enough."


"Believe in yourself. Know you have what it takes, to make excellence a good habit. Focus on doing excellent work and use discipline to make it happen."


"Perfection is pure action that comes with zeal to excel."


"Aim and hit the target of excellence, with constant practice. Make success happen, by working to be the best at what you do."


"A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a servant, but a master of his work!"


"Let your first enemy be mediocrity; it has no role to play, no word to say and no action to display in your life. Never love to swim in shallow waters; they breed nothing than fearful reptiles of failure!"


"In anything you set out to do, don't try your best. Do your best."


"Always be excellent and you'll rise above the rest."


"Aim to be the blue ribbon best. Develop yourself from practice, to become exceptional. Raise your standards and be the best."


"Autograph your life with a signature of excellence."


"Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several he will fail to achieve distinction in any."


"Those who believe in quality produce quality goods."


"We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time through some experience that we have of our companion or through some remark that he passes he stands for a moment close to us as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is."


"Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit."


"Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: 'Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?' If you don't ask those questions, your governance will not be good."
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