Quotes on Excellence

Anything worth doing well is worth doing poorly at first.Anonymous

• excellence
• practice

The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.Blaise Pascal

• criticism
• excellence

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.Charles Reade

• skill
• love
• excellence

I always tell our athletes, "The qualities you develop now, the things we're going to insist upon, will be with you for life, and they'll always be as sound and as good as they are now." All we're really talking about is a commitment to excellence.Lou Holtz

• commitment
• excellence

The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best.Colin Powell

• excellence

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.David Jordan

• excellence

Select your work carefully and if you don't love what you're doing enough to want to be the best at it, get out! Flee from the boring or unsatisfying job as you would from a burning building. Working at something you don't care about is the very best way to waste your life. Remember, this life is not a rehearsal for something else.Brian Tracy

• enthusiasm
• job
• excellence
• passion