Excellence
454 quotes: 40 by Keith Craft, 414 from other voices.
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- In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
- Integrity compounds infinitely, capability always decays.
- Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
- Intense interest in any subject is indispensable if you’re really going to excel in it.
- It does not matter the size of the man, rather the amount of effort the man is willing to put forth
- It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
- It is always cheaper to do the job right the first time.
- It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones.
- It is much more exciting to do hard things; anybody can do easy things.
- It is no great advantage to have a lively wit if exactness be wanting. The perfection of a clock does not consist in its going fast, but in its keeping good time.
- It is not our job to judge our own work. It is our job to create it, to pour ourselves into it, and to master our craft as best we can.
- It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance towards it, though we know it can never be reached.
- It is with life as it is with a play,—it matters not how long the action is spun out, but how good the acting is.
- It matters not how long you live but how well.
- It pays—not merely altruistically, but in good, hard, round dollars—to give a little more value than seems necessary, to work a bit harder than you are paid for.
- It suffices not to perform good works; we must do them well, in imitation of Our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom it is written, "He doeth all things well.
- It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.
- It's better to be perfectly useful than uselessly perfect.
- It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
- It's hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world
- It's in Apple's DNA that technology alone is not enough; it's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our heart sing.
- It's not enough to do your best; you must know what to do & then do your best.
- It’s not how big you are, it’s how big you play.
- It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
- It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
- I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good.
- Just as the little courtesies of every-day life make life worth the living, so the little details form the bone and sinew of a great success.
- Know your strongest Point—your pre-eminent gift; cultivate that and you will assist the rest. Every one would have excelled in something if he had known his strong point. Notice in what quality you surpass, and take charge of that.
- Leadership is no longer about your position. It's now more about your passion for excellence and making a difference You can lead without a title
- Learn to hide your need and show your skill.
- Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, and die with the consciousness that he has done his best.
- Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you.
- Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
- Life is one big tug of war between mediocrity and trying to find your best self.
- Life is the best thing we can possibly make of it.
- Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition — in having to put forth the best within you to match the deeds of risk-taking, hard-working competitors.
- [M]aybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
- Make clean work, and leave no tags. Allow no delays when you are at a thing; do it and be done with it.
- Make each day your masterpiece.
- Make each day your masterpiece. Life is now. Life is not later on.