Motivational Quotes
Excellence
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.
Best Quotes about Excellence
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Washington, Booker T.
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
It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
Berry, Wendell
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
The road to excellence is always under construction
There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.
Heifetz, Jascha
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
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
People who produce good results feel good about themselves.
Blanchard, Ken
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
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
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
Da Vinci, Leonardo
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
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
Keats, John
You must be resolutely determined that whatever you do shall always be the best of which you are capable.
Popplestone, Charles E.
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 quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.
Godin, Andre
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
Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.
Rorty, Richard
It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
Sir Winston Churchill
We must do the best we can with what we have.
Sill, Edward Rowland
All you owe the public is a good performance.
Bogart, Humphrey
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
Maugham, W. Somerset
Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.
Peterson, Wilferd A.
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.
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
Gasset, Jose Ortega Y
The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.
Powers, Melvin
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.
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
I can do small things in a great way.
Clarke, James Freeman
Don't waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence -- doing your best.
Olivier, Sir Lawrence
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
Johnson, Lyndon B.
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
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.
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
Shana Alexander
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
Young, Steve
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 success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do...
Schwartz, David J.
There's a way to do better... find it.
Edison, Thomas A.
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
Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
Marden, Orison Swett
Good enough never is.
Field, Debbi
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Lincoln, Abraham
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
I start where the last man left off.
Edison, Thomas A.
You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spectacular, don't show up in the morning paper.
Goodsell, Jane
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
If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
Roddick, Anita
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
Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.
Marden, Orison Swett
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