Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
~ John W. Gardner - [Excellence]

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe - [Excellence]

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
~ Jose Ortega Y Gasset - [Excellence]

If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.
~ Ray Floyd - [Excellence]

If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator rather than catering to it.
~ Edward Fischer - [Excellence]

It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.
~ Ernest Hemingway - [Excellence]

Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
~ Edward H. Harriman - [Excellence]

One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.
~ William Hazlitt - [Excellence]

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.
~ Henry Ford - [Excellence]

The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.
~ Charles A. Garfield - [Excellence]