Quotes about Excellence
My mentality was to go out and win, at any cost. If you don't want to live that regimented mentality, then you don't need to be alongside of me. Coz I'm gonna ridicule you until you get on the same level with me, and if you don't get on the same level, then it's gonna be hell for you.
— Michael Jordan
I said to myself, 'I don't want to be coming sixth or seventh, and being the best in Britain. I want to be the best in the world and race against these Kenyan guys.'
— Mo Farah
We needs must love the highest when we see it.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
If you meet a girl in whose presence you feel a desire … to do your best, … such a young woman is worthy of your love
— Henry B. Eyring
He [Walter Cronkite] was also a profoundly good man. I don't think we should lose sight of that. All those professional gifts emanated from a very good core and that's something that's beyond training. It's who he was.
— Bill Clinton
This is great
— Bill Gates
God has invested entirely too much in you for you to be comfortable in anything less than you were created to be.
— Bishop TD Jakes
We wonder if we serve better than someone else. We import a drive to achieve into our works of mercy.
— Henri Nouwen
Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
— Henry David Thoreau
If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
— Bill Gates
I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
— Lou Holtz
I got to experience soccer at the highest level at a young age; I decided I wanted to be part of that for as long as possible.
— Mia Hamm