Top 52 Achieve Excellence Quotes
#1. A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
Tom Peters
#2. Always aim at perfection for only then will you achieve excellence
J.R.D. Tata
#3. To achieve excellence, we must also consider and work with what is not apparent, with what cannot be seen. We must journey into the complex world of subtle energies.
Cyndi Dale
#4. Relentlessly pursue perfection knowing we won't catch it, but in the process we'll achieve excellence.
Vince Lombardi
#5. I was one of two first cultural exchange artists been allowed to go to the West. I knew it was such a rare opportunity and I had to treasure it by giving my utter most to achieve excellence.
Li Cunxin
#6. Many people can reach for and achieve excellence. To do this consistently is what separates masters and geniuses from everyone else.
Paul Russo
#7. I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is the only way you can achieve excellence. So, in that case, being finicky is essential.
J.R.D. Tata
#8. There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.
Vince Lombardi
#9. How do you achieve excellence? ... Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
Tom Peters
#10. A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.
Terry Orlick
#11. Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence.
Vince Lombardi
#12. When you achieve excellence,
expect some to oppose you.
When you achieve brilliance,
expect several to resent you.
When you achieve greatness,
expect many to envy you.
When you achieve transcendence,
expect plenty to hate you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#13. Whether we like it or not, each of us is constrained by limits on what we can do and feel. To ignore these limits leads to denial and eventually to failure. To achieve excellence, we must first understand the reality of the everyday, with all its demands
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#14. I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying.
Greg LeMond
#15. How do you achieve excellence? 1. Mindset 2. Discipline 3. Commitment 4. Consistency
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#16. Ideally, Competition should be a wonderful vicious circle of being inspired and inspiring others to achieve excellence and being the best version of themselves.
Tina Sequeira
#17. Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence.
Vince Lombardi
#18. Either find a way, or make one ... You can bend but you can never break if you want to achieve excellence.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#19. I wanted to emulate my parents - Mum captained India in basketball, and Dad won a bronze in hockey in 1972 Olympics. My focus has always been to achieve excellence whether in the field of tennis, in the corporate field, in the art of acting or in motivating youngsters.
Leander Paes
#20. Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent",
in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".
Plato
#21. If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.
Charles R. Swindoll
#22. If you don't value excellence, you won't achieve excellence.
Glenn C. Stewart
#23. Do not confuse excellence with perfection. The first is possible to achieve, the second is probably not.
Neale Donald Walsch
#24. Dream the impossible.
See the impossible.
Pursue the impossible.
Achieve the impossible.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#25. Journey to Excellence involve identifying the right things, at the right time, and to act upon them with the right way to achieve desired measurable outcome.
Bharat Shah
#26. There is more fulfilment when sharing with others than enjoying on your own - whatever success you achieve.
Archibald Marwizi
#27. We can never achieve and succeed without first making excellence second nature.
Jolene Church
#28. Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.
Rumi
#29. Don't waste time. Avoid the company of wasteful people who lack the desire to achieve. Become assertive and action-oriented.
Archibald Marwizi
#30. To achieve Operational Excellence, management has to coach, guide, teach, and instill the concept of getting rid of the use of management in supporting the flow of product to the customer
Kevin J. Duggan
#31. Dream what others do not.
Imagine what others have not.
Do what others will not.
Achieve what others could not.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#32. Blossoming out through one's comfort zone should be well meaning so as to achieve newer levels of excellence
Priyavrat Thareja
#33. Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself!
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
#34. Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.
Thomas Sowell
#35. My work is never perfect. It always can be better but I just believe that we need to achieve a really high level of excellence. I don't believe in the "Good Enough" principle as a Christian.
Brian Bird
#36. Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day
Brian Tracy
#37. Dreaming of being on Moon cannot get you there. It requires a focused & intelligent effort to achieve what you Dream.
Neelesh V. Sakhardande
#38. If high aspirations = high fear, overcoming high fear = achieving high aspirations.
Richie Norton
#39. Dream the impossible.
See the invisible.
Pursue the intangible.
Achieve the incredible.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#40. If you cannot see it in your mind, then it becomes difficult to get. If you can personally visualize it, it becomes easier and more realistic to achieve.
Archibald Marwizi
#41. To achieve your desired success you have to be effectively selling something and to be significant in impact, you must be teaching somehow. How effectively are you selling and how well are you teaching?
Archibald Marwizi
#43. We believe this combination of excellence in operations and strong execution of our strategy is critical to achieve our vision. We will continue to focus on both in future as well.
Azim Premji
#44. You must have goals for your life. Do not fear take a bold step to realize your goals.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#46. Cultivate a deep understanding of yourself - not only what your strengths and weaknesses are but also how you learn, how you work with others, what your values are, and where you can make the greatest contribution. Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence.
Peter Drucker
#47. To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.
Michael Jordan
#48. True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.
William J. Clinton
#49. In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve both equality and excellence.
John Turner
#50. The reward for goal-setting is that as you achieve each goal, you feel in charge of your own destiny, with every moment taken up productively. Self-esteem increases and it becomes easier to remain motivated. So set those high goals and make clear plans for their execution.
Archibald Marwizi
#51. To never aspire to excellence means to never fully comprehend the amount of work required to achieve it.
John Avery
#52. You cannot score a goal when you are sitting on the bench. To do so, you have to dress up and enter the game.
Israelmore Ayivor
