Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that little more which is worth all the rest.

Briggs, Dean

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

Mandino, Og

If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.

Floyd, Ray

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Hill, Napoleon

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Wilde, Oscar

15.

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

16.

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

17.

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

18.

There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

Heifetz, Jascha

19.

It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.

Hemingway, Ernest

20.

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

Robinson, James H.

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Aristotle

24.

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

25.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

26.

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

Hurt, William

27.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

28.

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

29.

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

31.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

32.

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

33.

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

34.

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.

35.

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.

36.

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

Riley, Pat

37.

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

Mead, Shepherd

38.

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

39.

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

Roddick, Anita

40.

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

41.

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

42.

I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

46.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

47.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

48.

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Watson, Thomas J.

49.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

50.

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