Excellence
454 quotes: 40 by Keith Craft, 414 from other voices.
Other voices on Excellence
- Make every action firm, strong, positive and determined; in other words, put your whole soul into everything that you feel, think or do.
- Make hard work your passion.
- Make the work you are doing today better than the work you did yesterday.
- Many people never reach greater because they don't leave good enough behind.
- Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.
- Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul.
- Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
- Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
- Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
- Never try to be better than somebody else. But most importantly, never cease trying to be the best you can be.
- Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read.
- Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
- No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a strange, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
- No good work whatever can be perfect; and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
- No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.
- No one rises to low expectations.
- No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.
- Nobody achieves anything great by giving the minimum.John C. MaxwellCommonly attributed
- Nobody contents himself with rough diamonds, or wears them so. When polished and set, then they give a lustre.
- Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
- Not failure, but low aim, is a crime.
- Not hammerstrokes, but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection.
- Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.
- Obsess to find ways to win. Work ethic separates the great from the good.
- One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSourced
- Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.
- Our distinctions do not lie in the places which we occupy, but in the grace and dignity with which we fill them.
- Our minds should be habituated to the contemplation of excellence.
- People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.
- People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity no matter how impressive their other talents.
- Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. Neglect nothing; the most trivial action may be performed to God.
- Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time.
- Perfection is beyond our reach, but they who earnestly strive to become perfect, acquire excellences and virtues of which the multitude have no conception.John Lancaster SpaldingSourced
- Perfection is like chasing the horizon. Keep moving.
- Perfection is lots of little things done well.Fernand PointSourced
- Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.
- Perfection isn’t attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.
- Perform at your best when your best is required. Your best is required each day.
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.