Always Strive For Excellence Quotes

#1. If you're a writer, write. And always strive for excellence.

Linda W. Yezak

#2. I think I always just want to get better at whatever I'm doing ... Always strive for excellence.

Carl Hagelin

#3. Be aware that even before you have reached your ultimate professional destination, if you always strive for excellence, you can and should have a substantial impact on the world in which you live.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#4. By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.

Thomas Jefferson

#5. I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today.

Bruce Sterling

#6. Never Compete With Anyone Other Than Yourself.

Chris Mentillo

#7. Make your plans as fantastic as you like, because 25 years from now they will seem mediocre. You will wonder why you did not make them 50 times as great

Henry Curtis

#8. I was brought up, and my sister too, with two people who were always saying, "What you do is really nowhere near as important as the things that are going on in the world, and if your work needs to reflect that, or you want it to, then you need to strive for a certain type of excellence."

Jake Gyllenhaal

#9. Big picture, it's amazing to create characters and see them brought to life in the art. And to love that art. But I especially enjoy writing a character with heightened powers that aren't especially useful to him.

Cynthia Leitich Smith

#10. Strive for excellence in your calling, but as a subsidiary to this: Do not fail to enrich your whole capital as man. To be a giant, and not a dwarf in your profession, you must always be growing. The man that has ceased to go up intellectually has begun to go down.

William Matthews