Excellence
454 quotes: 40 by Keith Craft, 414 from other voices.
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- Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
- How a little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chills the ardor to excel.
- How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?
- How you do anything is how you do everything.
- I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
- I am not competing with anyone other than myself. I want to be excellent at whatever I do.
- I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.
- I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.
- I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master in that line.
- I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.
- I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
- I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement.
- I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
- I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
- I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.Alexander HamiltonSourced
- I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.
- I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
- I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
- If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
- If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.
- If I cannot do great things. I can do small things in a great way.
- If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.
- If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?Tom PetersCommonly attributed
- If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.
- If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.Colin PowellCommonly attributed
- If you can't be remarkable, perhaps you should consider doing nothing until you can.Seth GodinCommonly attributed
- If you do enough small things right, big things can happen.
- If you do the best and the most you can today, don't worry about tomorrow.
- If you don't ask for the best, you don't get it.
- If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?
- If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies.
- If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.
- If you want to be average, focus on the performance. If you want to be the best, focus on making practice harder than performance.
- If you want to change your life you have to raise your standards.
- If you want to do more you have to commit to less. Raise the standards. Narrow the focus.
- If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.
- If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
- If you’re commited to doing your best work at all times, your best work is always today.
- In character, in manner, in style, in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
- In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all.