Excellence Quotes

“I worry so much. Like, "How can I be excellent?" But it's a journey.”

“Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.”

“To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.”

“What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.”

“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.”

“Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.”

“I always wanted to operate at the highest altitude, just in terms of hip-hop and the music.”

“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.”

“Extraordinary is a player who can score 60 goals. There are not a lot. Otherwise I think we would overuse the term.”

“I'm chasing perfection.”

“Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.”

“I'm only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.”

“I'm on the pursuit of awesomeness; excellence is the bare minimum.”

“It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.”

“Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your power.”

“Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.”

“Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”

“Always do more than is required of you.”

“One that desires to excel should endeavour in those things that are in themselves most excellent.”

“To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.”

“To do anything to a high level, it has to be total obsession.”

“We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.”

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

“I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.”

"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well."

William Osler