Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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.

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

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

Gardner, John W.

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Sands, Bill

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.

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

Roddick, Anita

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

Powers, Melvin

10.

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

Malloch, Douglas

11.

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

12.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

13.

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

14.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

16.

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.

17.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

18.

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.

Mandino, Og

19.

Let each day be your masterpiece.

20.

From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

Bruyere, Jean De La

21.

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

Thomas, Lowell

22.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

24.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

26.

I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

27.

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

28.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

29.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

33.

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

Mandino, Og

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art -- an individual masterpiece.

Waitley, Denis

38.

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.

39.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

40.

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

Berry, Wendell

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do -- they always reach.

Iacocca, Lee

45.

One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Hazlitt, William

46.

With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

Aristotle

47.

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

Wooden, John

48.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

49.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

50.

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