Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Wilde, Oscar

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.

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

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

Young, Steve

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

Watson, Thomas J.

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

Michener, James A.

10.

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

11.

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.

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.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

14.

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

John F. Kennedy

15.

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

16.

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

Floyd, Ray

17.

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

Berry, Wendell

18.

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

19.

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

Aristotle

20.

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

Washington, Booker T.

21.

The road to excellence is always under construction

22.

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

Mandino, Og

27.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

28.

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

Powers, Melvin

29.

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

Hill, Napoleon

30.

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

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

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

33.

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

34.

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

35.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

36.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

37.

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

Hurt, William

38.

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

Mead, Shepherd

39.

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

Newton, Howard W.

40.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

41.

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

Riley, Pat

42.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

43.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

44.

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

45.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

46.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

47.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

48.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

49.

Let each day be your masterpiece.

50.

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