Quotes about Excellence

Make each day your masterpiece.

Never try to be better than somebody else. But most importantly, never cease trying to be the best you can be.

Make each day a masterpiece.

Talent will get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Perfection is what you are striving for, but perfection is an impossibility. However, striving for perfection is not an impossibility. Do the best you can under the conditions that exist. That is what counts.

Always try to be the very best that you can be. Learn from others, yes. But don't just try to be better than they are.

don't worry about whether you're better than somebody else, but never cease trying to be the best you can become. You have control over that; the other you don't.

Never try to be better than anyone else, but never cease to be the best you can be. That's achievement.

never dreamed about winning a national championship. It happened before I even thought it was possible. What I was dreaming about each year, if you want to call it that, was trying to produce the best basketball team we could be.

Set your standards high; namely, do the absolute best of which you are capable. Focus on running the race rather than winning it. Do those things necessary to bring forth your personal best and don't lose sleep worrying about the competition. Let the competition lose sleep worrying about you. Teach your organization to do the same.

I never dreamed about winning a national championship. What I was dreaming about was trying to produce the best basketball team we could be. My thoughts were directed toward preparation, our journey, not the results of the effort. That would simply have shifted my attention to the wrong area, hoping for something out of my control.

And that, in my opinion, is the first goal of leadership—namely, getting the very best out of the people in your organization, whether they have talent to spare or are spare on talent.