Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Roddick, Anita

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

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

Gardner, John W.

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

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

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

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

Sallust

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

Waitley, Denis

10.

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

Thomas, Lowell

11.

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

Aristotle

12.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

13.

One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. There is a special sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in its parts, which the superficial person who leaves his or her work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition, can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns any work into art. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

Mandino, Og

14.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

15.

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

16.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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.

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

Trevino, Lee

19.

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

Wooden, John

20.

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

21.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

22.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Hill, Napoleon

23.

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

Malloch, Douglas

24.

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

Floyd, Ray

25.

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

26.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

27.

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

Wilde, Oscar

28.

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Young, Steve

29.

The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.

Powers, Melvin

30.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

31.

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

32.

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

Mandino, Og

33.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

34.

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

35.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

36.

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

37.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

38.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

39.

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

40.

I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

43.

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

Robinson, James H.

44.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

50.

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

Edison, Thomas A.