Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Excellence

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

Wooden, John

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Aristotle

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Roddick, Anita

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.

10.

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

11.

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

15.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

16.

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

Mandino, Og

17.

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

18.

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.

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.

If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.

Floyd, Ray

21.

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

22.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

23.

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

24.

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

25.

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

26.

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

John F. Kennedy

27.

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

Powers, Melvin

28.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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

30.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

31.

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

Malloch, Douglas

32.

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

Feinstein, Dianne

33.

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

34.

Let each day be your masterpiece.

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

36.

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

Mead, Shepherd

37.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

44.

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

45.

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

46.

I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

47.

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

48.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

49.

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

50.

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