“When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.”
“The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.”
“Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.”
“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”
“The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do...”
“Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.”
“Don't waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence -- doing your best.”
“He who has put a good finish to his undertaking is said to have placed a golden crown to the whole.”
“There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.”
“Resolve to make each day the very best and don't let anyone get in your way. If they do, step on them.”
“If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.”
“You must be resolutely determined that whatever you do shall always be the best of which you are capable.”
“There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.”
“You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.”
“Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.”
“The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.”
“If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.”
“If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.”
“The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.”
“The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.”
“The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.”
“There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.”
“You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.”
“A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.”
“Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.”
“We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.”
“You always have to give 100 percent, because if you don't, someone, someplace, will give 100 percent and will beat you when you meet.”
“Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that little more which is worth all the rest.”
“If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.”
“The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.”