10 Excellence Quotes

Excellence Affirmation:
Excellence is my personal brand. My commitment to it is unwavering.

Here are some of my favorite quotes about excellence.

• “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
  ~Aristotle

• “If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo 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.”
  ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

• “I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.”
  ~Michael J. Fox

• “None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”
  ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

• “Excellence – Take what you have and do the BEST with it.”
  ~Joyce Myer

• “Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
  ~Steve Jobs

• “Excellence always sells.”
  ~Earl Nightingale

• “Excellence is not a skill. it is an attitude.”
  ~Ralph Marston

• “Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.”
  ~Pat Riley

• “Excellence is to a common thing in an uncommon way.
  ~Booker T. Washington