Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Robinson, James H.

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

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

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

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

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

Roddick, Anita

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

10.

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

Aristotle

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

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

Mandino, Og

13.

I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

14.

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

16.

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

Hill, Napoleon

17.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

18.

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

Wooden, John

19.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

20.

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

21.

I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

22.

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

Schwartz, David J.

23.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

24.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

25.

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Shakespeare, William

26.

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

27.

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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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

29.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

30.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

31.

The road to excellence is always under construction

32.

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

Berry, Wendell

33.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

34.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

Mcdonald, John

36.

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

37.

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

38.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.

Vickery, A. Lou

43.

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

44.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

45.

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

Powers, Melvin

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