Quotes about Excellence

IBM stands for three things: the dignity of the individual, excellence, and service.

Whether you are a mailman, a hairdresser, an insurance salesman, a housewife—whatever. As long as you feel you are serving others, you do the job well. When you are concerned only with helping yourself, you do it less well—a law as inexorable as gravity.

It comes down to finding something you love to do and then just trying to be great at it

Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

Success comes when you do what you love to do, and commit to being the best in your field.

If you love, absolutely love what you are doing, chances are excellent that you will succeed. There is nothing so exhausting as working on a job you don't like.

If you have love you will do all things well.

I love watching gymnastics, swimming, and track and field.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.