Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Excellence

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Malloch, Douglas

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do -- they always reach.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Aristotle

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steer is the way to it.

Hesiod

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

10.

The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.

Gaberino, Geoffrey

11.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

12.

There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish.

Lucado, Max L.

13.

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

Roddick, Anita

14.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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.

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

Schwartz, David J.

17.

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

Meyer, Paul J.

18.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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.

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

Hurt, William

21.

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.

22.

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

Mandino, Og

23.

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

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

Keats, John

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Waitley, Denis

28.

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

29.

There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

Mill, John Stuart

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art -- an individual masterpiece.

Waitley, Denis

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.

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

35.

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

Aristotle

36.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Carnegie, Andrew

37.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

38.

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

39.

I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

40.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

41.

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

42.

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

43.

If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.

Floyd, Ray

44.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Let each day be your masterpiece.

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

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

Scott, Sir Walter