Excellence
454 quotes: 40 by Keith Craft, 414 from other voices.
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- There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg.
- There is always room at the top.
- There is no attaining eminence without both, and where they unite there is the greatest eminence. Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it. Work is the price which is paid for reputation. What costs little is little worth.
- There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.
- There is no "good enough" that's short Of what you can do and you ought. The flaw which may escape the eye And temporarily get by, Shall weaken underneath the strain And wreck the ship or car or train, For this is true of men and stuff-- Only the best is "good enough."
- There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
- There is no well-doing, no godlike doing, that is not patient doing.
- There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well.
- There’s a way to do it better – find it.
- Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
- Those who bestow too much application on trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.
- Time is the friend of the wonderful business, the enemy of the mediocre.
- To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
- To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
- To aim at excellence, our reputation, our friends, and our all, must be ventured; by aiming only at mediocrity, we run no risk, and we do little service.
- To be doing good is man’s most glorious task.
- To be successful you don’t need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.
- To become really good at anything, you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive.
- To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.Henri-Frédéric AmielCommonly attributed
- To do nothing by halves is the way of noble minds.
- To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
- To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
- To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
- To last an eternity requires an eternity of preparation. Only excellence counts; only achievement endures.
- To move people towards excellence, begin to expect excellence and then communicate that.
- To prove yourself able to rastle a big job, get busy and take care of a little one.
- Top performers make mistakes just like everyone else. The difference is that they get back on track faster than most.
- Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character!
- Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.MichelangeloCommonly attributed
- Trifles make perfection, but perfection itself is no trifle.
- Truthfulness is at the foundation of all personal excellence.
- Truthfulness is the foundation of all personal excellence. It exhibits itself in conduct. It is rectitude, truth in action, and shines through every word and deed.
- Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you’re doing.
- Underpromise; overdeliver.
- Understand this first, last and always: The world wants the best thing. It wants your best.
- 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.
- Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
- Virtue without talent is a coat of mail without a sword; it may indeed defend the wearer, but will not enable him to protect his friend.
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit.
- We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.