Quotes about Excellence
Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work.
- Andrew Carnegie
Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.
- Oscar Wilde
To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.
- Epictetus
Promise to think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best from yourself and others.
- John Wooden
If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding.
- Charles Stanley
Excellence isn't about working extra hard to do what you're told. It's about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.
- Seth Godin
I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can.
- Elbert Hubbard
If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
- John Malkovich
Our best work can't possibly appeal to the average masses, only our average work can. Finding the humility to happily walk away from those that don't get it unlocks our ability to do great work.
- Seth Godin
Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal.
- Ayn Rand
Perform your job better than anyone else can. That's the best job security I know.
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.