Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Excellence

Excellence is best described as doing the right things right -- selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

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

Mandino, Og

It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.

Hemingway, Ernest

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

It is only in your mind that you have to excel, at anything or everything. Of course, it would be very nice to excel at most things. Indeed, we recommend that you try and do your best. But realistically, you are entitled to do the bare minimum to get by. All your accomplishments are just a bonus, something to enjoy, not requirements. You don't have to do anything to prove that you are worthy of existing.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

It isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.

Malloch, Douglas

I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

Sanders, Col. Harland

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Hill, Napoleon

There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

Marden, Orison Swett

10.

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

11.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

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

13.

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

14.

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

15.

We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

Joubert, Joseph

16.

One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Hazlitt, William

17.

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

Marden, Orison Swett

18.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

19.

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

20.

A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

21.

It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.

Aristotle

22.

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

23.

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

Marden, Orison Swett

24.

If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

Lombardi, Vince

25.

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

Sir Winston Churchill

26.

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

Keats, John

27.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Tracy, Brian

28.

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.

29.

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

Waitley, Denis

30.

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Gracian, Baltasar

31.

Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

32.

You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spectacular, don't show up in the morning paper.

Goodsell, Jane

33.

If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator rather than catering to it.

Fischer, Edward

34.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

35.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.

Marden, Orison Swett

37.

The road to excellence is always under construction

38.

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

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The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

Getty, J. Paul

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If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

Mead, Shepherd

41.

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

Feinstein, Dianne

42.

You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.

Garcia, Jerry

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Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hall-mark of excellence.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Aristotle

45.

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

Riley, Pat

46.

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

Ford, Henry

47.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

48.

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

Robinson, James H.

49.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Pearl Buck

50.

I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away.

Fields, Debbie