Quotes about Excellence

Supreme art is the region of Equals. There is no primacy among masterpieces.

How goodness heightens beauty!

Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

What one skill, if I developed and did it in an excellent fashion, would have the greatest positive impact on my career?

There are certain things that you can do, or learn to do, that can make you extraordinarily valuable to yourself and to others. Your job is to identify your special areas of uniqueness and then to commit yourself to becoming very, very good in those areas.

What I learned was that in order to achive great success in life, you must become a special kind of person. To rise above the majority, you must develop qualities and disciplines that the average person lacks.

Do what the top people do.

That the most excellent method he had found of going to GOD, was that of doing our common business without any view of pleasing men, [Gal. i. 10; Eph. vi. 5, 6.] and (as far as we are capable) purely for the love of GOD.

Don't worry if those around you aren't doing their best. Just worry about how to make yourself worthy. Doing your best is the surest way to remind those around you to do their best.

You've got to make it easy for the judges to mark. It's got to be clean elements.

It's hard not to respect Kobe Bryant's game: He's one of the all-time greats.

No man can be everything. A successful long-distance cyclist can't be a bodybuilder. Though there are exceptions, dedicating one's time to becoming exceptional at one thing usually means not being exceptional at a whole lot of other things. Since no man can be everything, one of the best gifts to give is acceptance-'You don't have to be anything other than what you are.