Quotes about Excellence
You are nothing unless it comes from your heart. Passion, caring, really looking to create excellence. If you perform functions only and go to work only to do processes, then you are effectively retired. And it scares me—most people I see, by age twenty-eight are retired.
— John Maxwell
Willa A. Foster commented, "Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.
— John Maxwell
A leader with great passion and few skills always outperforms a leader with great skills and no passion.
— John Maxwell
to put it as philosopher-poet Ralph Waldo Emerson did, "To be simple is to be great.
— John Maxwell
George Halas said, "Nobody who ever gave their best ever regretted it." 3.
— John Maxwell
If you want to be the best leader you can possibly be, no matter how much or how little natural leadership talent you possess, you need to become a serving leader.
— John Maxwell
One of the most important things you can do as a leader is make sure you and your organization are delivering what you promised. The question I ask to make an assessment of this is "Did we exceed expectations?" This ensures my future success and that of my organization. The future is dim professionally for anyone who doesn't exceed the expectations of customers or clients.
— John Maxwell
They are committed to excellence. John Johnson in Christian Excellence writes, "Success bases our worth on a comparison with others. Excellence gauges our value by measuring us against our own potential. Success grants its rewards to the few but is the dream of the multitudes. Excellence is available to all living beings but is accepted by the... few.
— John Maxwell
Excellence connects.
— John Maxwell
Successful people do daily what unsuccessful people do only occasionally. The bookends of success are beginning well and ending well. What is between those bookends? Consistency. If you want to become the leader you have the potential to be, you need to pay the price of self-discipline.
— John Maxwell
To get the best out of people, leaders must ask for the best from people.
— John Maxwell
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
— John Maxwell