Quotes about Excellence

Don't work for recognition but do work worthy of recognition.

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatness in life is only possible when you become outstanding at your chosen field.

Excellence in obscurity is better than mediocrity in the spotlight.

The high cost of greatness is better than the low cost of mediocrity.

Let us show ourselves godly by being more spiritual in duty. It is not the quantity, but the quality which God is concerned with. It is not how much we do but how well.

Let it not be said that repentance is difficult. Things that are excellent deserve labour. Will not a man dig for gold in the ore though it makes him sweat? It is better to go with difficulty to heaven than with ease to hell.

Every time 'Lady Macbeth' and everyone involved in the film gets nominated, it's amazing.

A major key to success in this life, to attaining that which you deeply desire, is to be completely released and throw all there is of yourself into your studies or any project in which you are engaged. In other words, whatever you are doing, give it all you've got.

The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!

The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what the task may be. This is a habit followed by all successful people since the beginning of time. Therefore I saith the surest way to doom yourself to mediocrity is to perform only the work for which you are paid.