Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Waitley, Denis

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.

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

Sallust

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

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

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

The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Malloch, Douglas

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

Mandino, Og

10.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

11.

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

12.

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

Wooden, John

13.

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Kingsley, Charles

14.

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.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

19.

I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest. I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.

Truman, Harry S

20.

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

Robinson, James H.

21.

I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

22.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Shakespeare, William

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Aristotle

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

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

Floyd, Ray

33.

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

Newton, Howard W.

34.

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

35.

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

36.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

37.

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

38.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

39.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

40.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

41.

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

Hurt, William

42.

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

Wilde, Oscar

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

46.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

47.

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.

48.

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

Hazlitt, William

49.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

50.

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