Catherine McAuley Quotes

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Don’t tolerate any form of average. Don’t accept Dis-excellence. Don’t stand for mediocre. If you’re going to settle, then please settle for the absolute best.

Never settle for average.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

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

You have to be a professional in every single thing you do.

Excellence is going the extra mile.

Set the bar high - do the best you possibly can.

I am incapable of mediocrity.

You can't succeed by being good. That's what you get paid for. You can't succeed by being excellent. That's what you're expected to do. You can only succeed by being outstanding.

Champions do ordinary things better than everyone else.

Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.

A good actor is like a racehorse or a Ferrari. If a cylinder is missing on a Chevy, it's doesn't matter that much. But if something's not working right on a Ferrari, it makes a big difference. It's the three percent that makes the difference between good and great. It's a fine line. If you're not there, it's very painful.

It is not enough to get things done; they must be done right.

For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well.

Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving.

Being a perfectionist is not an evil thing.

Whatever you do big or small, do it well or don't do it at all.

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

If you are the best, you must go that extra mile.

Good enough never is. Set your standards so high that even the flaws are considered excellent.

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great.

If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.

I'm not here to be good. I'm here to be great.