Quotes for Excellence

You need a commitment which is long term and a commitment to leadership, because that's the only way you build excellence.

Azim Premji

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

In my judgment, physical fitness is basic to all forms of excellence and to a strong, confident nation.

Robert Kennedy

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

Warren Bennis

I read all these books about excellence, and then I went into spirituality, and all these books were really about leveling up. Being the best version of yourself.

Tony Gonzalez

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Booker T. Washington

Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live.

Ada Lovelace

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

George Eliot

America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

Paul Tsongas

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Thomas J. Watson

Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.

Victoria Principal

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

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Imran never lost faith in us as players, individually and as a team, and that gave us the confidence to win. He was a leader par excellence, and Pakistan have seen none like him.

Inzamam-ul-Haq

But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.

Andy Hertzfeld

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.

Tom Peters

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

'Dance to the Music' was just Sly Stone being his natural crazy self right from the beginning. The man was an original and his first AM hit was nothing if it wasn't the example per excellence of the Sly Stone music machine.

Jon Landau

I think all my characters haunt me. Especially the real-life ones, like Master Chief Carl Brashear, the Tuskagee Airmen. Every time I see a military person, it gives me such a sense of pride but also a sense of responsibility to project excellence when representing them.

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

We are building a national and worldwide network of law enforcement excellence - a network that, through cooperation, allows us to meet the challenges we all face.

William Barr