Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Mandino, Og

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

Riley, Pat

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

Thomas, Lowell

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Mansfield, Katherine

10.

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

Wooden, John

11.

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

12.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

13.

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

Trevino, Lee

14.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

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

16.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

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

Mead, Shepherd

18.

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

19.

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

John F. Kennedy

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

23.

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

24.

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

Gardner, John W.

25.

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

26.

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

Gardner, John W.

27.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.

Pollock, Channing

34.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

36.

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

Aristotle

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Hill, Napoleon

40.

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

41.

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

Shakespeare, William

42.

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

43.

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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.

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

Sands, Bill

46.

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

47.

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

48.

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.

49.

It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

Marden, Orison Swett

50.

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

Robinson, James H.