Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Wooden, John

Best Quotes about Excellence

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.

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

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

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

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Wooden, John

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

Hurt, William

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

Mandino, Og

10.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

11.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

12.

The road to excellence is always under construction

13.

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

Powers, Melvin

14.

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

15.

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.

16.

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

Aristotle

17.

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

Mead, Shepherd

18.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

19.

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

Mcdonald, John

20.

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

21.

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

Riley, Pat

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

25.

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

26.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

27.

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

Washington, Booker T.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

31.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

32.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

33.

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

34.

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.

35.

Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.

Garcia, Jerry

40.

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

41.

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

Roddick, Anita

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Robinson, James H.

46.

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

Feinstein, Dianne

47.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.