Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

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.

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

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

Malloch, Douglas

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

10.

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

Wooden, John

11.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

12.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

13.

People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Owens, Jesse

14.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

15.

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

16.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

17.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Let each day be your masterpiece.

21.

Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

22.

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

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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

24.

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

25.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Lincoln, Abraham

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.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

28.

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

Waitley, Denis

29.

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.

30.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

Meyer, Paul J.

32.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

33.

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

34.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Carnegie, Andrew

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

38.

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

Riley, Pat

39.

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

Mead, Shepherd

40.

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

Gardner, John W.

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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

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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.

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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

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

45.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

46.

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

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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

48.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

49.

The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do...

Schwartz, David J.

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Excellence is best described as doing the right things right -- selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.