Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'

They more than do their work, they take pride in it. Like Cinna.

Do your very best on every task. Imagine that everyone is watching even when no one is watching.

I think it's important to do a good job and not to feel that you've got to make grand gestures, but just to get on and deliver.

The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity.

Whatever you do, take pride in it and be great at it.

It's important to always do your best work, no matter what the film is.

Anything you do in your life, you have to be a professional.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again.

The key to success is to learn to do something right and then do it right every time.

I think the foremost quality - there's no success without it - is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there's no success if you don't do well what you're working at.

You want to be the best at your position. And if people think of me as one of the best ever, that's the ultimate compliment.

In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well

Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence.

Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody.

Identify with excellence, put your name on your work, and both your work and name will stand the test of time.

If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote.

I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can.

The rule for every worthwhile man is that no serious job ever shall receive less than his best thought and effort.

The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.