Quotes about Excellence

Drawing up plans such as these diagrams is the easy part. I did it thousands of times. Creating a successful organization with people who execute the plans at a level of Competitive Greatness—now, that's the challenge of leadership.

Make Every Day Your Masterpiece!

The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

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.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

Playing the man means playing hard—giving God everything you've got. It's leaving it all out on the court. The gold standard is Colossians 3:23, which says, Whatever you do, work at it with all of your heart, as working for the Lord. A literal translation could read: "Do it like your life depends on it." In other words, give it everything you've got. Don't just make a living. Make a life.