Famous Quotes about Excellence (147 Quotations)

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.''

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

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 best described as doing the right things right — selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

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

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence — only in constant improvement and constant change.

Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.

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.

Good enough never is.

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.

He who has put a good finish to his undertaking is said to have placed a golden crown to the whole.

I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: ''Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.'' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

I can do small things in a great way.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.