Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. — John W. Gardner
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
People of excellence go the extra mile to do what's right. — Joel Osteen
The power of excellence is overwhelming. It is always in demand, and nobody cares about its color. — Daniel James, Jr.
Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer. — Rick Pitino
Excellence is the product of high aspirations and low ego. — Adam Grant
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. — Pat Riley
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes. — Tom Peters
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. — Aristotle
Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people. — Joseph Joubert
Once you understand what excellence is all about…you see how excellence manifests itself in any discipline. — Joe Rogan
If you don't genuinely like your customers, chances are they won't buy. — Thomas Watson
We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
If we don't take care of our customers, someone else will. — Edgar Mitchell
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
There's a place in the world for any business that takes care of its customers-after the sale. — Harvey Mackay
It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.
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
Customers today want the very most and the very best for the very least amount of money, and on the best terms. Only the individuals and companies that provide absolutely excellent products and services at absolutely excellent prices will survive. — Brian Tracy
It is not enough to give the customer excellent service. You must subtly make him aware of the great service he is getting. — Unknown
Being Excellent Quotes
Stop hating on yourself for not being perfect. If God wanted perfection, He would have made you an angel. — Yasmin Mogahed
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
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings. — Evan Esar
You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope. It applies to women as well as to men. We can't all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some degree. — Jackie Kennedy
God is infinite, so His universe must be too. Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest; He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds. — Giordano Bruno
Everyone excels in something in which another fails.
I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is the only way you can achieve excellence. So, in that case, being finicky is essential. — J. R. D. Tata
Relentless is about never being satisfied, always driving to be the best, and then getting even better. — Tim Grover
I strongly recommend that students with autism get involved in special interest clubs in some of the areas they naturally excel at. Being with people who share your interests makes socializing easier. — Temple Grandin
I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent. — Twyla Tharp
You Are Excellent Quotes
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
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
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
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.
You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest symbol of excellence. They are a tribute to the democratic philosophy. They are our aspirations and our name. They are the essence of Greekness. — Melina Mercouri
Your are more powerful than you know. Do not delay your journey to personal excellence. — Tom Bilyeu
Yes, flexibility of body and physical perfection for Yogasana is important. However more important is the state of your mind, Meditative mind. Your flexibility might be excellent but if your mind is not attentive, you are merely doing some physical exercise, not Yoga. — B.K.S. Iyengar
I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of human excellence is to question oneself and others.
If you are greeted then return the greetings more warmly. If you are favored, then repay the obligation manifold; but he who takes the initiative will always excel in merit. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
If someone remarks "What an excellent man you are!" and this pleases you more than his saying, "What a bad man you are!" know that you are still a bad man. — Sufyan al-Thawri
Excellence is a habit. You are what you repeatedly do. — Shaquille O'Neal
Ronda is the place where to go, if you are planning to travel to Spain for a honeymoon or for being with a girlfriend. The whole city and its surroundings are a romantic set. ... Nice promenades, good wine, excellent food, nothing to do. — Ernest Hemingway
Excellent Work Quotes
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
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
The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, nuerotic, and a terrible waste of time.
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
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
Passion promotes excellence.
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
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people. — K. Patricia Cross
Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort. — Paul J. Meyer
Some Excellent Quotes
The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in a few words. — Samuel Johnson
My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved hunting and fishing, he didnt romanticize them. He was filling the freezer, not intellectualizing some caveman impulse or proving his worth as a real man. — Steve Albini
Every year I try to keep in excellent shape and improve some part of my game. I play in the offseason overseas to keep my game tuned up and hopefully improve a little in some area. — Sue Wicks
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Gaining maturity in yoga practice involves learning to respect the paths that other people are on and acknowledging their merits, maybe even acknowledging that your own path is lacking in some area where another one excels. — Geeta Iyengar
One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once, life would collapse. There are simply no definitive answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light. — Barry Lopez
Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face. — Vidal Sassoon
Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray. — Joseph Joubert
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
You will miss out on some near soul mates. This goes for friendships, too. There will be unforgettable people with whom you have shared an excellent evening or a few days. Now they live in Hong Kong, and you will never see them again. That’s just how life is. — Pamela Druckerman
Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach. — John W. Gardner
Excellent Education Quotes
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
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
Do not let the world's adversity either stifle your enthusiasm, nor blind your vision. The struggle towards excellence must ever be conducted on the high plains of self-confidence, a sense of purpose, and positive thought. — Ronald McNair
Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine. — John Baldacci
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
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.
I think we're vastly over-invested in universities. Universities should be relatively small and provide excellent education and research in a number of specialized areas. I think the vast majority of young people should be going through non-university, post-secondary training. — Stephen Harper
You see, we'll never be able to compete in the 21st century unless we have an education system that doesn't quit on children, an education system that raises standards, an education that makes sure there's excellence in every classroom. — George W. Bush
Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness. — Leo Strauss
As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization in education is crucial to both freedom and excellence. — Jerry Brown
Excellent Performance Quotes
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
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
Excellent Service Quotes
Have fun, because that's what life is all about. — Ryan Lochte
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
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
It's for management to enthuse & motivate employees towards excellence in service; the profit incentive doesn't last — Phil Harding
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
Rich people are almost always excellent promoters. They can are willing to promote their products, their services, and their ideas with passion and enthusiasm. — T. Harv Eker
But money spent while manic doesn't fit into the Internal Revenue Service concept of medical expense or business loss. So after mania, when most depressed, you're given excellent reason to be even more so. — Kay Redfield Jamison
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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