Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Doing common things uncommonly well.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Excellence

It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.

Marden, Orison Swett

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

Watson, Thomas J.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority...

Marden, Orison Swett

We must do the best we can with what we have.

Sill, Edward Rowland

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can reach. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries and predecessors; try to be better than yourself.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Feinstein, Dianne

Today, and every day, deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive. You deserve them!

Mandino, Og

Resolve to make each day the very best and don't let anyone get in your way. If they do, step on them.

Benson, Ivan

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

Keats, John

10.

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

Gardner, John W.

11.

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Aristotle

12.

There's a way to do better... find it.

Edison, Thomas A.

13.

To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

Mcdonald, John

14.

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

Darwin, Francis

15.

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

O'Connor, Flannery

16.

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

17.

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Scott, Sir Walter

18.

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

19.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Mandino, Og

20.

When you say you'll meet someone at 11:00 AM, be there at 10:45. When you promise a check on the 30th, send it on the 28th. Whatever you agree to do, do it a bit more. Start with your employees, then extend it to everyone you deal with. News will soon get around that you are a person of your word.

Scott, Charles Prestwich

21.

It isn't what you do, but how you do it.

Wooden, John

22.

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Woolf, Virginia

23.

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

Gardner, John W.

24.

With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

Aristotle

25.

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Shakespeare, William

26.

The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do...

Schwartz, David J.

27.

Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

Ogilvy, David

28.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

29.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

30.

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

Trevino, Lee

31.

Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

Robinson, James H.

32.

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

Goldsmith, Oliver

33.

Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the best in your chosen field, whatever it is.

Mitchell, Don G.

34.

One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

Brown, Les

35.

It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

Marden, Orison Swett

36.

Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

37.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

38.

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Roddick, Anita

39.

You must be resolutely determined that whatever you do shall always be the best of which you are capable.

Popplestone, Charles E.

40.

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Waitley, Denis

41.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Riley, Pat

42.

Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.

Sands, Bill

43.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

44.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

45.

Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark...

Marden, Orison Swett

46.

To do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way; to do some things better than they were ever done before; to eliminate errors; to know both sides of the question; to be courteous; to be an example; to work for the love of work; to anticipate requirements; to develop resources; to recognize no impediments; to master circumstances; to act from reason rather than rule; to be satisfied with nothing short of perfection.

Marshall Field & Company

47.

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

John F. Kennedy

48.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Lincoln, Abraham

49.

Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that little more which is worth all the rest.

Briggs, Dean

50.

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.