Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Pat Riley
Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hall-mark of excellence.
Orison Swett Marden
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
Colin Powell
No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
Charles Kendall Adams
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Vincent Lombardi
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
Publilius Syrus
Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Sun Tzu
No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.
Horace
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King Jr