Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

Intensity is the price of excellence.

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence.

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.

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

One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.

I've only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something.

I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.

I think it's important to do great work.

I seek out good work.

Something I've learned is that it actually takes a lot of work to make something great.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

The way I did it, every job was A+.

The secret of success is to do a common thing uncommonly well.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

Well, uh, I don't know another way than to work at the top level, which is what I do every day.

There are no shortcuts to true excellence.

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

As long as I do a good job and do it professionally and people see the quality, and see who I really am, then I think that's all you can do in football.