Pursuing Excellence Quotes

I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.

The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

I aspire to be useful.

Why would I give up so much to just be another singer or another person doing what he loves? I'm out here doing everything to the best of my capability to be the best.

Will I allow my fear to bind me to mediocrity?

Though you should not fear failure, you should do your very best to avoid it.

I'm chasing perfection.

It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of people ever really get the word about life, about living abundantly and successfully. Success in the important departments of life seldom comes naturally, no more naturally than success at anything - a musical instrument, sports, fly-fishing , tennis, golf, business, marriage, parenthood. But for some reason most people wait passively for success to come to them ..., living as other people are living in the unspoken, tacit assumption that other people know how to live successfully.

I want to reach my full potential.

When you're at the top, there's only one way to go.

Whatever your walk in life is, you pick what you want to be, then go ahead and be the best one.

Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.

Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.

Be great at what you do, and don't ever settle for mediocrity or else you will always wonder how great you could have been.

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.

A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.

This process of the good life is not, I am convinced, a life for the faint-hearted. It involves the stretching and growing of becoming more and more of one's potentialities. It involves the courage to be. It means launching oneself fully into the stream of life.

Working hard and doing doing great work is as imperative as breathing. Creating great work warms the heart and enriches the soul. Those of us lucky enough to spend our days doing something we love, something we're good at, are rich. If you do not work passionately (even furiously) at being the best in the world at what you do, you fail your talent, your destiny, and your god.

When you're reaching for a star, there's a long way to fall.

Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.

After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind.

From testimonials and personal experience we have enough information to conclude that IT'S POSSIBLE TO DESIGN AND LIVE AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE