Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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.

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

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

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Young, Steve

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

Trevino, Lee

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

13.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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.

15.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

Keats, John

16.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

17.

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

18.

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

Feinstein, Dianne

19.

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

Riley, Pat

20.

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.

21.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

22.

Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.

Marden, Orison Swett

23.

If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator rather than catering to it.

Fischer, Edward

24.

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

25.

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.

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Excellence is best described as doing the right things right -- selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

29.

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

Mcdonald, John

30.

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

31.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

32.

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

33.

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

34.

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

Robinson, James H.

35.

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

36.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Carnegie, Andrew

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

41.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

42.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

43.

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

44.

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

Hurt, William

45.

Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

46.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

47.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

48.

The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do...

Schwartz, David J.

49.

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

50.

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