Excellence Quotes - Page 2

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is the only way you can achieve excellence. So, in that case, being finicky is essential.

Top to bottom Michigan is about excellence, greatness. You have my pledge I will carry forward the excellence of Michigan football.

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

Intensity is the price of excellence.

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

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.

Success is not something to wait for, it is something to work for.

Patience is also a form of action.

Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.

Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.

Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.

Believe passionately in what you do, and never knowingly compromise your standards and values. Act like a true professional, aiming for true excellence, and the money will follow.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!

Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence.

The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

Adequacy is the enemy of excellence.

I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.

Excellence does not require perfection.

Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most we can hope for is excellence.