Excellence
454 quotes: 40 by Keith Craft, 414 from other voices.
Other voices on Excellence
- The gods sell everything good for labor.
- The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough.
- The hallmark of excellence, the test of greatness, is consistency.
- The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
- The inner consciousness of work worthily attempted and well done is its own reward.
- The key to teamwork is to learn a role, accept a role, and strive to become excellent playing it.
- The knack of making good use of moderate abilities secures the esteem of men, and often raises to higher fame than real merit.
- The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may be safely left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.
- The less pain we tolerate, the more average we become.
- The Lisa people wanted to do something great. And the Mac people want to do something insanely great. The difference shows.
- The more you prepare beforehand, the more relaxed and creative and effective you’ll be when it counts.
- The most outstanding gifts can be destroyed by idleness.
- The only man we have any respect for is the man who uses all the endowment he has, and uses it until he bleeds.
- The only thing that I can control is how hard I work.
- The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.
- The only way to deep happiness is to do something you love to the best of your ability
- The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius.
- The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.
- The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.
- The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
- The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
- The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
- The rare people who do become truly exceptional at something do so not because they believe they are exceptional. On the contrary, they become amazing because they’re obsessed with improvement.
- The real challenge is holding yourself to a higher standard and simultaneously not punishing yourself for the occasional mistake.
- The real secret of world-class performers isn’t the daily routines that they develop, but that they stick to them. That they show up, even when they don’t feel like it.
- The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
- The road to the Olympics leads — in the end — to the best within us.
- The secret to genius is not genetics but daily practice married with relentless perseverance.
- The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
- The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well; and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame.
- The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius.
- The true laborer is recompensed by his labor, not by his employer.
- The unexamined life is not worth living.
- The way we do small things determines the way we do EVERYTHING
- The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere, lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralysed.
- The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.
- The world expects results. Don't tell others about labor pains. Show them the baby.
- There are many ways of being frivolous, only one way of being intellectually great; that is honest labor.
- There are no big things, only a logical accumulation of little things done at a very high standard of performance.
- There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.