Excellence
454 quotes: 40 by Keith Craft, 414 from other voices.
Other voices on Excellence
- You must first become consistent before you can become exceptional.
- You need to get good in order to get good things in your working life.
- You should be continually learning, from the experience of others, or from your own experience, reading, and reflection, to do everything you have to do better to-day than you did yesterday.
- You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
- Your edge is your willingness to do the work that others won’t.
- Your potential, the absolute best you're capable of—that's the metric to measure yourself against.
- When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
- Essentially there are two actions in life: Performance and excuses. Make a decision as to which you will accept for yourself.Steve BrownCommonly attributed
- Your brain can tell you what to do, but your heart will give you the desire to DO IT. It is this heart power that will make the difference between being just another 'wannabe' or becoming a true champion. I firmly believe that all of us have it within us to become a true champion.Dan Brent BurtCommonly attributed
- Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
- If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or as Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause and say, 'Here lived a great street-sweeper who did his job well.'
- Excellence is not an act, but a habit.
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
- Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.Booker T. WashingtonCommonly attributed