Quotes on Striving For Excellence

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.