Quotes about Excellence
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
— John Updike
Absolute perfection belongs not to man, nor to angels, but to God alone.
— John Wesley
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
— John Wooden
Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.
— John Wooden
My workmanship and quality are my strengths.
— Neelam Kothari
There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.
— David Starr Jordan
What can you say about Messi? A guy who has won five Ballon d'Ors, four Champions Leagues and has scored 97 goals in a year. There is no need to win a World Cup to certify that talent.
— Javier Zanetti
We don't have to be perfect today. We don't have to be better than someone else. All we have to do is to be the very best we can.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Be more ambitious. Don't bunt. When you get a job to do a story or an ad, try and hit the ball out of the park every time
— David Ogilvy
If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If it falls to your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music ... Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.