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Quotes about excellence
The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life. (Alexander Shana)
The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks. (Alexander Shana)
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do. (Alexander Shana)
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself. (Alexander Shana)
The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips. (Alexander Shana)
The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action. (Alexander Shana)
Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued. (Alexander Shana)
To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service. (Alexander Shana)
There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled. (Alexander Shana)
Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more. (Alexander Shana)
One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect. (Alexander Shana)
There is no top. There are always further heights to reach. (Alexander Shana)
Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steer is the way to it. (Alexander Shana)
You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for. (Alexander Shana)
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. (Alexander Shana)
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served. (Alexander Shana)
The noblest search is the search for excellence. (Alexander Shana)
We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us. (Alexander Shana)
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. (Alexander Shana)
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as 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 streetsweeper who did his job well. (Alexander Shana)
Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. (Alexander Shana)
Anybody who accepts mediocrity -- in school, on the job, in life -- is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises. (Alexander Shana)
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. (Alexander Shana)
When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace. (Alexander Shana)
There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish. (Alexander Shana)
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