Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.Mary Kay Ash
Waking up early was the first example I noticed in the SEAL Teams in which discipline was really the difference between being good and being exceptional.Jocko Willink
Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.Tom Peters
Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Intense interest in any subject is indispensable if you’re really going to excel in it.Charlie Munger
The best programmers are not marginally better than merely good ones. They are an order-of-magnitude better, measured by whatever standard: conceptual creativity, speed, ingenuity of design, or problem-solving ability.Randall E. Stross
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution.Aristotle
You need the people who want to work at a high level but who can go all the way down to the atoms.Ben Fried
I’m a big believer that a small number of exceptional people who are highly motivated can do better than a large number of people who are pretty good and moderately motivated.Elon Musk
Wherever you are or whatever your job, don't be confused or diverted by false priorities. We have only one mission to perform-that is to fight and win. And, we must do it better than anyone else in the world.Leslie E. Brown
I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!Douglas MacArthur
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.Vince Lombardi
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.Denis Diderot
And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping? I'm working.Will Smith
To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.Giorgio Armani
The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do.Michael D. Higgins
Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.Walter Pater
The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.Charles Handy
If you deliver excellence right now, that gives you the best shot at the best future you've got coming.Robert Forster
Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea that you should give in to things that make no sense because other people do those things and you want to appear reasonable, you are on a path towards mediocrity.Eva Moskowitz
Delaware State has established itself as an institution of excellence in its own right and attracts a diversity of students from various races, socio-economic status and locations.Michael N. Castle
I feel opera is an expression of artistic excellence. To do it is expensive, as there's a requirement for an orchestra, good voices, excellent sets, and the fact that productions generally have only short runs. But I believe it's something we ought to achieve as a nation.Michael Portillo
Excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over again. You can hit a half-court shot once. That's just the luck of the draw. If you consistently do it... that's excellence.Jay-Z
When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.Joe Paterno
Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.Hesiod
The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.Charles R. Swindoll
Stay focused on your mission, remain steadfast in your pursuit of excellence, and always do the right thing.Mark Esper