Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the best in your chosen field, whatever it is.

- Mitchell, Don G.

Best Quotes about Excellence

1.

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

Shakespeare, William

2.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

3.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

4.

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

5.

Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

6.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

7.

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

8.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

9.

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

Gardner, John W.

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

The road to excellence is always under construction

14.

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

Washington, Booker T.

15.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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.

I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

Sanders, Col. Harland

18.

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

19.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

20.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

21.

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

22.

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

Wooden, John

23.

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

Berry, Wendell

24.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

25.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

Keats, John

26.

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.

27.

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

John F. Kennedy

28.

I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

29.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

30.

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

Schwartz, David J.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Mcdonald, John

34.

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

Malloch, Douglas

35.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

36.

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

37.

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.

38.

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

39.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

40.

Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the best in your chosen field, whatever it is.

Mitchell, Don G.

41.

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.

42.

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

Hill, Napoleon

43.

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

Aristotle

44.

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

45.

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

Hurt, William

46.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

47.

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

Roddick, Anita

48.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

49.

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

Robinson, James H.

50.

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