Motivational Quotes

Excellence

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Let each day be your masterpiece.

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.

Peters, Thomas J.

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.

The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

10.

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

11.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

12.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

13.

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

14.

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Scott, Sir Walter

15.

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

16.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

23.

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

24.

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

25.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

26.

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

27.

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

Sands, Bill

28.

I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

29.

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

30.

There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish.

Lucado, Max L.

31.

When you say you'll meet someone at 11:00 AM, be there at 10:45. When you promise a check on the 30th, send it on the 28th. Whatever you agree to do, do it a bit more. Start with your employees, then extend it to everyone you deal with. News will soon get around that you are a person of your word.

Scott, Charles Prestwich

32.

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

33.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

34.

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

35.

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

36.

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

Trevino, Lee

37.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steer is the way to it.

Hesiod

38.

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

39.

I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

Mandino, Og

43.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Tracy, Brian

44.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

45.

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

Darwin, Francis

46.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

47.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

48.

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

Riley, Pat

49.

I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest. I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.

Truman, Harry S

50.

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

Mansfield, Katherine