Excellence
454 quotes: 40 by Keith Craft, 414 from other voices.
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- Don't speak of your talents, but make them speak of you.
- Don’t tell me how talented you are. Tell me how hard you work.
- Don’t worry about getting perfect, just keep getting better.
- Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
- Elite producers and everyday heroes understand that what you do each day matters far more than what you do once in a while.
- Even as a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.
- Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.
- Every youth, from the king's son downwards, should learn to do something finely and thoroughly with his hand.
- Exceed your customers' expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want—and a little more.
- Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.
- Excellence is going the extra mile.Joyce MeyerCommonly attributed
- 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.
- Excellence is never granted to man but as the reward of labour.
- Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
- Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
- Excellence isn’t a one-week or one-year ideal. It’s a constant.
- Excellence — moral, ethical, personal excellence — is worth whatever it costs. Pay the price.
- Fidelity is seven-tenths of business success.
- Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.
- Folks who never do more than their paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.
- For ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.
- For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man’s hunger.
- For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back.
- From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do – now.
- Fundamental things are the knowledge of our work, quality of our work, and the love of our work.
- Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
- Genius is nothing more than our common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
- Gentlemen, we are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it.
- Get better today than you were yesterday.
- Give me 100 percent. You can’t make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don’t have 110 percent. You only have 100 percent, and that’s what I want from you right now.
- God is all for quality; man is for quantity.
- Good is the enemy of great.
- Good is the enemy of great. That’s why so few things become great.
- Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
- Great things are not done by impulse, but a series of small things brought together.
- Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.
- Hasten slowly, and without losing heart put your work twenty times upon the anvil.
- Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
- He doeth much that doeth a thing well.