Quotes about Excellence

There is no shortcut to excellence.

The great human law that in the end recognizes and rewards merit is everlasting and universal.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to be the best, but when it takes over the joy in the moment, and the joy in the journey, then that's where there's an internal tension. And I have to surrender that.

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

Still I saw not how that righteousness, which good and holy men obeyed, did far more excellently and sublimely contain in one all those things which God commanded, and in no part varied; although in varying times it prescribed not every thing at once, but apportioned and enjoined what was fit for each.

Good, better, best, never let it rest 'til the good is the better, and the better is the best

But those who are ready to toil in the most excellent pursuits, will not desist from the search after truth, till they get the demonstration from the Scriptures themselves.

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

Once you join the team, you live at a certain standard that I play the game and I wasn't going to take anything less. When people see this, they gonna say, He wasn't really a nice guy. He may have been a tyrant. Well, that's you, because you never won anything. I wanted to win, but I wanted them to win and be a part of it as well.