Excellence costs a great deal.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.

Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into excellence.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it… Autograph your work with excellence.

Honor is due to God and to persons of great excellence as a sign of attestation of excellence already existing; not that honor makes them excellent

I just want to be as good as I can be with any opponent I have and hear everyone say ‘that was her best match ever.’

I’m on the pursuit of awesomeness, excellence is the bare minimum.

The ridiculous way that workplace politics are conducted completely gets in the way of excellence in America.

Baseball is a sport that celebrates individual excellence within a team framework

He lived in terror of, well, becoming ordinary.

If you think I’m hard on my drivers it’s because I expect excellence from them.

People judge you on your performance, so focus on the outcome. Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Excellence is not a skill, excellence is an attitude.

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

An organization which just perpetuates today’s level of vision, excellence, and accomplishment has lost the capacity to adapt.

Cultivate a deep understanding of yourself – not only what your strengths and weaknesses are but also how you learn, how you work with others, what your values are, and where you can make the greatest contribution. Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence.

It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.

Adequacy is the enemy of excellence.

Everyday you have to fight so that love for humanity can be transformed into concrete deeds, into acts that set an example, that mobilize.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that’s how I operate my life.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than man, which is the touchstone of highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

Ask me to steal, block out, sacrifice, lead, dominate. Anything. But it’s not what you ask of me, it’s what I ask of myself.

he art of determining the character of another by the resemblances and differences between his face and our own, which is the standard of excellence.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.

I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.