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Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.
John W. Gardner
The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.
Charles M. Schwab
True greatness consists in being great in little things.
Charles Simmons
We must do the best we can with what we have.
Edward Rowland Sill
Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.
David Ogilvy
There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
Baltasar Gracian
Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms.
Samuel Johnson
The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.
Melvin Powers
Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the best in your chosen field, whatever it is.
Don G. Mitchell
If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
Anita Roddick
There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish.
Max L. Lucado
People who produce good results feel good about themselves.
Ken Blanchard
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
Jos
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
Excellent things are rare.
Plato
God is in the details.
Mies Van der Rohe, "New York Tim
There is no finish line.
Nike Corporation
If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.
Shepherd Mead