Extraordinary results deemed that you set a priority and act on it. — Gary Keller
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes. — Tom Peters
The power of excellence is overwhelming. It is always in demand, and nobody cares about its color. — Daniel James, Jr.
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
Short Excellent Performance Quotes
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. — Jack Kinder
Proper preparation prevents poor performance. — Charlie Batch
A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance. — Tom Flores
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. — Pat Riley
If we commit ourselves to the successful completion of a task, then we personify excellence. — Nik Halik
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. — Baltasar Gracian
Perfect preparation prevents piss-poor performance. — Woody Hayes
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. — Aristotle
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. — Booker T. Washington
Your actions speak louder than words, so always strive for excellence in everything that you do. — Joe Rogan
Excellent Performance Image Quotes
We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Appreciation Quotes
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership. — Nelson Mandela
You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count. — Nancy Reagan
Happiness doesn't depend on what we have, but it does depend on how we feel toward what we have. We can be happy with little and miserable with much. — William D. Hoard
Allow yourself to be a beginner. No one starts off being excellent.
beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living. — Bob Marley
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people. — Dick Gregory
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. — Carl Rogers
To appreciate the sun you gotta know what rain is. — J. Cole
The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy. — Omar Khayyam
An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it. — Confucius
We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed. — Brother Lawrence
Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance. — William Shakespeare
It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to high sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. — Peter Drucker
If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions. — Swami Vivekananda
Sleep might be the most important aspect of building a great business and having a high-performing body. — Lewis Howes
Everyone excels in something in which another fails.
The greats never stop learning. Instinct and talent without technique just makes you reckless, like a teenager driving a powerful, high-performance vehicle. — Tim Grover
Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance. — Holger Czukay
Any mother could perform the jobs of several air-traffic controllers with ease. — Lisa Alther
To win in the marketplace you must first win in the workplace. — Douglas Conant
Good Performance Quotes
While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian. — George Washington
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. — Ted Williams
Girded with faith and the performance of good works, let us follow in his [Jesus] paths by the guidance of the Gospel. — Benedict of Nursia
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
Rate your individual acts as good or bad, if you like. Seek to perform as many good ones, and as few bad ones, as possible. — Oliver Burkeman
The success of Yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships. — T. K. V. Desikachar
Servant leadership always empathizes, always accepts the person, but sometimes refuses to accept some of the person's effort or performance as good enough. — Robert K. Greenleaf
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
Sluggish days and bad workouts maintain the compound gains you accrued from previous good days. — James Clear
Performing at my best is important to me and should be to everyone. I am blessed that my dad is a chiropractor. Getting adjusted regularly - along with practicing other good health habits that my mom helped me to establish - are all part of my goal to win in life and on the field. — Aaron Rodgers
Focusing on results might be good for short-term performance but it can be an obstacle to long-term learning. — Adam Grant
When one comes to comfort a young widow, he does not mean to perform a good deed. — Yiddish Proverbs
Outstanding Performance Quotes
Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined. — Daniel Goleman
MAMMOOTTY has presented an outstanding performance in film'New Delhi' — Satyajit Ray
A large country with such outstanding economic performance as Germany cannot forget that it owes some of its success to demand from other European countries. — Francois Hollande
To perform your best, you need to know who you are and why you think and feel the way you do.
Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show. — Major Taylor
Don Knotts won five Emmy Awards for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actor or Actress in a Series [in Andy Griffith Show] in 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966 and 1967. — Betty Lynn
The magic behind every outstanding performance is always found in the smallest of details. — Gary Ryan
Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.
Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be the setting - it's going to be the performance, the lively, lovely, glamorous performance, and the world shall be the scenery. — Sayings
I'm sure that Zhang Lanxin could be an outstanding action movie actress. For one thing, she wouldn't require a stand-in. As for Yao Xingtong, she might be an excellent action performer in her next life. — Jackie Chan
I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way. — Jack Kirby
Inventory discipline across the brands coupled with an outstanding holiday performance at Victoria's Secret led to a 36 percent increase in fourth-quarter earnings per share at Limited Inc. — Bill Vaughan
Excellent Work Quotes
Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best. — Marva Collins
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
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
The tiger and the lion may be more powerful, but the wolf does not perform in the circus.
A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things. — John of the Cross
To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. — Pearl S. Buck
One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index. — Oliver Goldsmith
I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of human excellence is to question oneself and others.
If you want to work with me, you have to work harder than the others and do well in school. — Bernard Arnault
Better work often comes from those striving for excellence than from those who have already achieved it. — Greg Brockman
Hard work is not punishment. Hard work is the price of admission for the opportunity to reach sustained excellence — Jay Bilas
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
Excellent Service Quotes
Have fun, because that's what life is all about. — Ryan Lochte
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 pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, nuerotic, and a terrible waste of time.
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
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
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
High Performance Quotes
Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high. — Jim Rohn
As nervous as I am to pick up a water bottle, that's how nervous I am to perform. My confidence is very high. I really enjoy going up, I feel like it's my birthday everyday that I have to go up there. — Gucci Mane
Spend more time recruiting. Take risks on high-potential people with a fast rate of improvement. Look for evidence of getting stuff done in addition to intelligence. — Sam Altman
One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance. — Patrice Motsepe
Superstars are even more valuable than they seem, but you have to evaluate people on their net impact on the performance of the organization. — Sam Altman
As a coach, your high standards of performance, attention to detail and - above all - how hard you work set the stage for how your players perform. — Don Shula
You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best. — Wayne Rooney
Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do — Toni Braxton
So the first thing I learned about how to get superior performance is not to buy stocks that are near their lows, but to buy stocks that are coming out of broad bases and beginning to make new highs. — William O'Neil
In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things. — Luciano Pavarotti
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. — Robert A. Heinlein
Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile. — William Raspberry
Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence. — Marcus Buckingham
We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence. — Peter Drucker
I believe excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over. — Jay-Z
Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day — Brian Tracy
For a company to excel, employees must be reassured that self-interest, not the company's, is their foremost priority. We believe an employee who puts himself first will be motivated to perform. — Ricardo Semler
A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work. — Michael Faraday
The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable commitment to excellence. — Ken Robinson
It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity. — Peter Drucker
Our definition of a weakness is anything that gets in the way of excellent performance. — Donald O. Clifton
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. — Denis Diderot
Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect. — Mahatma Gandhi
Trust gives you the permission to give people direction, get everyone aligned, and give them the energy to go get the job done. Trust enables you to execute with excellence and produce extraordinary results. As you execute with excellence and deliver on your commitments, trust becomes easier to inspire, creating a flywheel of performance. — Douglas Conant
The kind of commitment I find among the best performers across virtually every field is a single-minded passion for what they do, an unwavering desire for excellence in the way they think and the way they work. 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
When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellency becomes a reality. — Joe Paterno
I like the powerful story, the excellent performances the beautiful cinematography and the vision of the "The Piano". — Mabel Cheung
The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance. — Lloyd Grossman
Cognitive skills such as big-picture thinking and long-term vision were particularly important. But when I calculated the ratio of technical skills, IQ, and emotional intelligence as ingredients of excellent performance, emotional intelligence proved to be twice as important as the others for jobs at all levels. — Daniel Goleman
The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally. — Twyla Tharp
It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance. — James Young
I don't come to work as an actor. There are many directors who can direct without ever having acted and do a great job and connect with their actors and lead them to excellent performances without themselves having had an acting background. — Abdellatif Kechiche
When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction. — Joel Siegel
Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well. — Aristotle
Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you do. The market only pays excellent rewards for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average performance, and it pays below average rewards or unemployment for below average performance. — Brian Tracy
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance. . . . There will always be the false snobbery which tries to place one vocation above another. You will become a member of the aristocracy in the American sense only if your accomplishments and integrity earn this appellation. — James Bryant Conant
We may have an excellent ear for music, without being able to perform in any kind; we may judge well of poetry, without being poets, or possessing the least of a poetic vein; but we can have no tolerable notion of goodness without being tolerably good. — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
Diffidence may check resolution and obstruct performance, but compensates its embarrassments by more important advantages; it conciliates the proud, and softens the severe; averts envy from excellence, and censure from miscarriage. — Samuel Johnson
Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence. — Unknown
I've never been in a business where safety performance was excellent and the business performance was not, so they go hand in hand, and for me, safety performance is an indication of discipline, of focus and of how joined up an organization is. — Cynthia Carroll
In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played down to the level of the weakest man on parade.... The deeper the discipline, the lower was the individual excellence; also the more sure the performance. — T. E. Lawrence
What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance. — Richard M. Nixon
There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices. — Algernon Sidney
You can pay people to perform, but you can't pay people to excel. — Lou Holtz
Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn't a realistic expectation. — Leon F. "Lee" Ellis
I was brought up on choirs and brass bands. They formed the music of my childhood. When I heard the Treorchy Male Choir at the Royal Variety Performance it brought back such happy memories. You have your own eminent place in the history of British music. You stand for excellence in a great tradition and your work for charity is both an example and an inspiration. — Michael Parkinson
Great teachers and schools expect and nurture quality work and quality performance. Great teachers inspire and demand quality, ever urging their students to higher levels of excellence. They shun mere conformity and expect their students to think and perform to their ever-increasing potential. — Oliver DeMille
It is not sufficiently considered in the hour of exultation, that all human excellence is comparative; that no man performs much but in proportion to what other accomplish, or to the time and opportunities which have been allowed him. — Samuel Butler
Miss Petrowska,an excellent pianist, held the audience transfixed with Chou Wen-chung’s work. Miss Petrowska was coolness itself in getting the hardware into the piano and out again…in Messiaen, a feeling for the music’s reverent sobriety combined to produce an absorbing performance. — Donal Henahan
A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough. — Faye Wattleton
The educational process should not be one of homogenizing. It should be one of encouraging excellence... when we fail to make financial aid depend upon performance, we eliminate the incentive to excellence. — John H. Sununu
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