Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Olivier, Sir Lawrence

Best Quotes about Excellence

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Feinstein, Dianne

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

Keats, John

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

The road to excellence is always under construction

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Robinson, James H.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

10.

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

11.

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

Riley, Pat

12.

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

13.

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

14.

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

Thomas, Lowell

15.

If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

Lombardi, Vince

16.

You always have to give 100 percent, because if you don't, someone, someplace, will give 100 percent and will beat you when you meet.

Macauley, Ed

17.

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

18.

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

Gardner, John W.

19.

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

20.

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

Young, Steve

21.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

22.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

23.

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

24.

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.

25.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

Marden, Orison Swett

30.

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

31.

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.

32.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Hill, Napoleon

37.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

38.

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

Hazlitt, William

39.

I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

40.

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

Berry, Wendell

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

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