Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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.

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

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Gardner, John W.

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

10.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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 quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

16.

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

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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.

18.

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

Sands, Bill

19.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

20.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

21.

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

Thomas, Lowell

22.

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

Floyd, Ray

23.

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

24.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

25.

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

Aristotle

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

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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.

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

Riley, Pat

33.

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

Powers, Melvin

34.

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

35.

I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

36.

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.

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

Hurt, William

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

Mead, Shepherd

39.

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

40.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

41.

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

Young, Steve

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

Carnegie, Andrew

43.

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

Hill, Napoleon

44.

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

45.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

46.

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

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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

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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

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

Roddick, Anita

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

Wooden, John