Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

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

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

Thomas, Lowell

Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.

Sands, Bill

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Robinson, James H.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

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

Aristotle

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

10.

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

11.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

12.

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

Marden, Orison Swett

13.

Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

14.

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

15.

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

16.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

17.

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

18.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

19.

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

20.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Hurt, William

22.

Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that little more which is worth all the rest.

Briggs, Dean

23.

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

Mead, Shepherd

24.

Let each day be your masterpiece.

25.

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

26.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

27.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Aristotle

31.

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.

32.

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

33.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

34.

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

35.

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

Waitley, Denis

36.

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

37.

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

Wilde, Oscar

38.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

39.

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

40.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

41.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

42.

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

43.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Tracy, Brian

44.

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

Powers, Melvin

45.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Roddick, Anita

49.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

50.

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