Excellence Quotes

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

Wendell Berry

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Brian Tracy

People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence.

Orison Swett Marden

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

Orison Swett Marden

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...

Orison Swett Marden

Doing common things uncommonly well.

Orison Swett Marden

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.

Orison Swett Marden

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

Orison Swett Marden

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.

Orison Swett Marden

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.

Orison Swett Marden

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

Sir Laurence Olivier

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

Ray Floyd

There is always a best way of doing everything.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Lee Trevino

He who has put a good finish to his undertaking is said to have placed a golden crown to the whole.

Eustachius

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Voltaire

Perfection is an imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Lowell Thomas

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

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.

Geoffrey Gaberino