Excellence Quotes

Individual efforts can bring excellence but only collective efforts can deliver effectively.

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

It is a good instinct if you don't distort it and pervert it. Don't give it up. Keep feeling the need for being important. Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.

I don't work at being ordinary.

Intensity is the price of excellence.

If You're going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town. And if You're going to play the guitar, really, really, really get in it, and don't be jivin'.

Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.

Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly.

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

Everything is important- that success is in the details.

A-plus players like to work together and they don't like it if you tolerate B work.

We're not going to be the first to this party, but we're going to be the best.