Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

Don't waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence -- doing your best.

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Carnegie, Andrew

People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Malloch, Douglas

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

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

Aristotle

No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.

Pollock, Channing

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

Hazlitt, William

10.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

11.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

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.

14.

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.

15.

There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

Heifetz, Jascha

16.

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

17.

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.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Washington, Booker T.

21.

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

22.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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

24.

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.

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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

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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

27.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

28.

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

Wooden, John

29.

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

30.

The road to excellence is always under construction

31.

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

32.

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

Keats, John

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

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People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Owens, Jesse

37.

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

38.

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

39.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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

42.

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

Mcdonald, John

43.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

44.

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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.

Mandino, Og

46.

Anybody who accepts mediocrity -- in school, on the job, in life -- is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.

Knight, Charles

47.

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

48.

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

Mandino, Og

49.

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

Aristotle