Quotes about Excellence

There might be exceptions—and if so, you might rethink their employment—but few people really want to be mediocre. Most of your team members want to make a valued contribution—to find purpose in their work.

Be true to yourself. Make each day your masterpiece! Help others. Drink deeply from good books, especially the Bible. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day. Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day.

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

IBM stands for three things: the dignity of the individual, excellence, and service.

Whether you are a mailman, a hairdresser, an insurance salesman, a housewife—whatever. As long as you feel you are serving others, you do the job well. When you are concerned only with helping yourself, you do it less well—a law as inexorable as gravity.

It comes down to finding something you love to do and then just trying to be great at it

Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

Success comes when you do what you love to do, and commit to being the best in your field.

If you love, absolutely love what you are doing, chances are excellent that you will succeed. There is nothing so exhausting as working on a job you don't like.

If you have love you will do all things well.

I love watching gymnastics, swimming, and track and field.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.