Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you. — Oprah Winfrey
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. — Colin Powell
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him. — Oscar Wilde
Adequacy is the enemy of excellence. — Peter Drucker
Never settle for anything less than your best. — Brian Tracy
Allow yourself to be a beginner. No one starts off being excellent.
What Is Excellence Quotes
When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living. Tecumseh Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. — Voltaire
Cleaners have a dark side, and a zone you can’t enter. They get what they want, but they pay for it in solitude. Excellence is lonely. — Tim Grover
I think what IBM is excellent at is using their sales and marketing infrastructure to convince people who have asymmetrically less knowledge to pay for something. — Chamath Palihapitiya
We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion. — Alexander The Great
Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself. — Louis L'Amour
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes. — Tom Peters
It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it ... Autograph your work with excellence. — Vince Lombardi
Have fun, because that's what life is all about. — Ryan Lochte
What’s needed now is a dramatic new way of inspiring people to excel while things are happening at lightning speed. — Michael Abrashoff
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. — Voltaire
Service Excellence Quotes
No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, education or money, income is an excellent antidote for deprivation. No truth has spawned so much ingenious evasion. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Unless you have 100% customer satisfaction, you must improve. — Horst Schulze
The mail service has been excellent out here, and in my opinion this is all that the Air Force has accomplished during the war. — Chesty Puller
Everyone excels in something in which another fails.
The Clintons represent the highest level of corruption, but no one has the courage to mention it. Instead they talk about Rudy Giuliani. Over a lifetime of excellent service, there's never been a hint of corruption in his behavior but everybody investigates him. — Jackie Mason
A good company delivers excellent products and services, and a great company does all that and strives to make the world a better place. — Bill Ford
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
The theory of the lung as a gland has justified its existence and done excellent service in bringing forward facts, which shall survive any theoretical construction that has been or may hereafter be put upon them. — August Krogh
If you don't genuinely like your customers, chances are they won't buy. — Thomas Watson
Focus very clearly on a few small things. The purpose of a business is to give someone something that they want. Have a product or service that's really excellent. [...] What can you offer that no one else can offer and will satisfy them at a higher level than what anyone else can? — Brian Tracy
If we don't take care of our customers, someone else will. — Edgar Mitchell
Customer Excellence Quotes
Disruption starts with committing to excellence and taking a stand for your customer. — Lewis Howes
Consistent alignment of capabilities and internal processes with the customer value proposition is the core of any strategy execution. — Robert S. Kaplan
In the new workplace, with its emphasis on flexibility, teams and a strong customer orientation, this crucial set of emotional competencies is becoming increasingly essential for excellence in every job in every part of the world. — Daniel Goleman
I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of human excellence is to question oneself and others.
The more efficient causes of progress seem to consist of a good education during youth whilst the brain is impressible, and of a high standard of excellence, inculcated by the ablest and best men, embodied in the laws, customs and traditions of the nation, and enforced by public opinion. — Charles Darwin
Bill Gates' Success Factors for Microsoft 1. Long-term Approach 2. Passion for Products and Technology 3. Teamwork 4. Results 5. Customer Feedback 6. Individual Excellence — Bill Gates
The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that there are no results inside its walls. The result of a business is a satisfied customer. — Peter Drucker
The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, nuerotic, and a terrible waste of time.
There's a place in the world for any business that takes care of its customers-after the sale. — Harvey Mackay
Biggest question: Isn't it really 'customer helping' rather than customer service? And wouldn't you deliver better service if you thought of it that way? — Jeffrey Gitomer
If you want to stay in business, satisfy customers. If you want to excel in business, delight customers. — Ron Kaufman
We need to take excellent care of our customers, and do so at a profit. — Gerard Arpey
Excellence Quotes
Success doesn't come from pie-in-the-sky thinking. It's the result of consciously doing something each day that will add to your overall excellence. — Nick Saban
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny. — Aristotle
Leadership is no longer about your position.
It's now more about your passion for excellence and making a difference
You can lead without a title — Robin Sharma
Passion promotes excellence.
His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular. — Idi Amin
Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership. — Peter Drucker
We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition. — Aristotle
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. — Sun Tzu
Stop hating on yourself for not being perfect. If God wanted perfection, He would have made you an angel. — Yasmin Mogahed
The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse. — Carlos Castaneda
There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses - only results. — Ken Blanchard
Pursue Excellence Quotes
Excellence must be pursued, it must be wooed with all of one’s might and every bit of effort that we have each day there’s a new encounter, each week is a new challenge. — Vince Lombardi
I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important. — Nina Simone
If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed. — Deepak Chopra
Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
It takes more energy to maintain mediocrity than it takes to pursue excellence. — Matthew Kelly
Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can. — Chris Evert
You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself. — D. A. Carson
The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety. — Joshua Waitzkin
I was later to receive an excellent first two years' graduate education in the same University and then again was able to pursue my studies in the U.S. on a fellowship from the aforementioned fund. — Chen-Ning Yang
Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used. — Adam Clarke
Pursue excellence and ignore success. If you are excellent you will be successful — Deepak Chopra
Pursuit Of Excellence Quotes
Strive for perfection in everything. Take the best that exists and make it better. If it doesn't exist, create it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough — Henry Royce
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal -- a commitment to excellence -- that will enable you to attain the success you seek. — Mario Andretti
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek. — Mario Andretti
To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. — Pearl S. Buck
Being pretty good at everything is more important than excelling in one pursuit. Be an athlete of life. — Peter Attia
Life is about the pursuit of excellence. That pursuit is probably more exciting to me now than ever. — Joe Rogan
The heart of human excellence often begins to beat when you discover a pursuit that absorbs you, frees you, challenges you, or gives you a sense of meaning, joy, or passion. — Terry Orlick
What's wrong with creative block? Might it not just be that periods--even extended ones--of productive hiatus are essential mechanisms of gestation designed to help us attain higher standards in our pursuit of creative excellence? — Alexi Murdoch
This quality of self-denial in pursuit of a longer-term goal and, indeed, the willpower to maintain the denial, is excellent training for the boardroom. — John Viney
The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect.
The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection. — Alan Kulwicki
Passion For Excellence Quotes
Emulation is a handsome passion; it is enterprising, but just withal. It keeps a man within the terms of honor, and makes the contest for glory just and generous. He strives to excel, but it is by raising himself, not by depressing others. — Jeremy Collier
Do your best at every job. Don't sleep! Success generates more success so be hungry for it. Hire good people with a passion for excellence. — Steve Jobs
Believe passionately in what you do, and never knowingly compromise your standards and values. Act like a true professional, aiming for true excellence, and the money will follow. — David Maister
My path was simple: Follow your passion. Pour in your heart and soul. Settle for nothing less than excellence. And with enough hard work and faith in yourself, you can realize your dream. — Robert Mondavi
A Leader must possess credibility, imagination, enthusiasm, vision, foresight, a sense of timing, a passion for excellence and be willing to share. — William Rosenberg
Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself. — Mark Twain
I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding. — Dave Bautista
Genuine confidence is what launches you out of bed in the morning, and through your day with a spring in your step. — James C. Collins
The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be admired for that which only deserves admiration. — Joseph Addison
Many excellent artists working today unfortunately lack the indispensable gifts necessary for demagoguery and self-promotion, while the bad ones are full of passionate intensity. — Roman Genn
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. — Harriet B. Braiker
He played a near-perfect game, but to him, not perfect enough. — Tim Grover
Better work often comes from those striving for excellence than from those who have already achieved it. — Greg Brockman
Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world. — Joyce Meyer
Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best. — Laurence Olivier
Be aware that even before you have reached your ultimate professional destination, if you always strive for excellence, you can and should have a substantial impact on the world in which you live. — Sandra Day O'Connor
Your actions speak louder than words, so always strive for excellence in everything that you do. — Joe Rogan
Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best. — Laurence Olivier
Aspiration lifts the life; groveling lowers it. When we are striving for excellence in everything we do the entire life grows and expands, but if we allow our standards to drop, there is a natural progression that follows, a tendency for a downward effort in all that we do thereafter. — Orison Swett Marden
Strive For Excellence Quotes
It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential. — Brad Henry
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. — Charles R. Swindoll
Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude — Colin Powell
Perfection, fortunately, is not the only alternative to mediocrity. A more sensible alternative is excellence. Striving for excellence is stimulating and rewarding; striving for perfection--in practically anything--is both neurotic and futile. — Ed Bliss
Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success. — Akhenaton
Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating. — Melody Beattie
It is up to the leader to create a healthy environment where people are not afraid to fail. Mistakes should be seen as an integral part of the organizational process. They are a normal part of striving for excellence. — Andrew Harvey
I want people to be inspired that I've always strived for excellence and I've always gone beyond what anybody ever thought I could do, what I thought I myself could do. And I've allowed myself to be inspired, kept my eyes open and my senses open to inspiration around me. — Clara Hughes
The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life. — John W. Gardner
Personal Achievement Quotes
Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace. — Dalai Lama
...a person and an organization must have goals, take actions to achieve those goals, gather evidence of achievement, study and reflect on the data and from that take actions again. Thus, they are in a continuous feedback spiral toward continuous improvement. This is what 'Kaizan' means. — W. Edwards Deming
True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition. — Frederick Herzberg
Even if a person hurts you, give him love. The worst punishment is to throw someone out of your heart... You should love everyone as God, and love each other. If you cannot love each other, you cannot achieve your goal. — Neem Karoli Baba
Freedom from slavery is achieved only when a person starts to feel and understand that he would prefer death to life as a slave. — Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale
Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’ — Eleanor Roosevelt
The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow. — Ingvar Kamprad
Christian life isn’t a one-person race. It’s a relay. You are not alone; you’re part of a team assembled by our unstoppable God to achieve his eternal purposes. — Christine Caine
Academic Excellence Quotes
I was hired for a really excellent academic job early in my life; I was twenty-five when I started at Princeton and I got tenure early on. I really didn't deserve this; I just happened to be in the right place at the right time. — Paul Lansky
There is no academic virtue in playing mediocre football and no academic vice in winning a game that by all odds one should lose...There has indeed been a surrender at Notre Dame, but it is a surrender to excellence on all fronts, and in this we hope to rise above ourselves with the help of God. — Theodore Hesburgh
Our society cannot afford a two-tiered system in which the affluent have access to superior education, while everyone else is subjected to a dull and incoherent classroom experience. Academic excellence, educational equity, and fairness demand a strong foundation of knowledge for all learners. — E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world. — Dolly Parton
Universities have failed in their function of the pursuit of academic excellence by having dumbed down classes and granting degrees to students who are just barely literate and computationally incompetent. — Walter E. Williams
A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads. — Michelle Malkin
I think that we already have a really good system in town, but I have a vision that it could be even better. My vision is that academic excellence is the area that we should pursue more, coupled with fiscal discipline. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
As academics we have pretty good judgment about the quality of institutions that cannot simply be measured by counting the number of papers published or patents received. Outsiders who swoop in to count beans and make up lists based on statistics have little sense of what excellence is. — Henry Rosovsky
I was very academically inclined. But my inner life was in such turmoil. I'd go home and my home life was so miserable that it just felt like I was doing everything that I was supposed to do. I did all my chores, made really good grades, and I was excelling at school, but I wasn't happy. — Sonja Sohn
Jimmy Page is an excellent producer. Led Zeppelin I and II are classics. As a player he's very good in the studio, but I've never seen him play well live. He's sloppy. He plays like he's got a broken hand and he's two years old. If you put out a good album and play like a two year old, what's the purpose? — Eddie Van Halen
Believe in the best ... have a goal for the best, never be satisfied with less than your best, try your best, and in the long run things will turn out for the best — Henry Ford
No matter how you may excel in the art of Karate, and in your scholastic endeavors, nothing is more important than your behavior and your humanity as observed in daily life. — Gichin Funakoshi
Cultivate a deep understanding of yourself - not only what your strengths and weaknesses are but also how you learn, how you work with others, what your values are, and where you can make the greatest contribution. Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence. — Peter Drucker
Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one .. I loved Frank Zappa ... I do think Van Halen reinvented the guitar ... he's an excellent musician, a shrewd guitarist and as a person he's wonderful. — Ritchie Blackmore
Teamwork is the foundation of success. The three universal questions that an individual asks of his coach, player, employee, employer are: Can I trust you? Are you committed to excellence? And, do you care about me? — Lou Holtz
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own. — Nikos Kazantzakis
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. — Eddie Robinson
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