Motivational Quotes
Excellence
The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
Best Quotes about Excellence
Let each day be your masterpiece.
To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.
Aristotle
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.
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
With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.
Aristotle
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
Good enough never is.
Field, Debbi
Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.
Peters, Thomas J.
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
Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.
Beamon, Bob
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
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
One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.
Hazlitt, William
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.
It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
Sir Winston Churchill
You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.
Hurt, William
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
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
Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.
Ogilvy, David
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
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
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
One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. There is a special sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in its parts, which the superficial person who leaves his or her work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition, can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns any work into art. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.
Mandino, Og
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
Shana Alexander
I start where the last man left off.
Edison, Thomas A.
Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.
Shakespeare, William
Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Gardner, John W.
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
Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.
Gardner, John W.
We must do the best we can with what we have.
Sill, Edward Rowland
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Wilde, Oscar
Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
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
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
The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.
Garfield, Charles A.
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
It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
Berry, Wendell
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
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
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.
Doing common things uncommonly well.
Marden, Orison Swett
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
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
If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
Roddick, Anita
Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.
Marden, Orison Swett
There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
Gracian, Baltasar
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
The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.
Gaberino, Geoffrey
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