Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Gardner, John W.

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Keats, John

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Wooden, John

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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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

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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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.

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There's a way to do better... find it.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

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

Riley, Pat

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

Trevino, Lee

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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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Sands, Bill

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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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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

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

Schwartz, David J.

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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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

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One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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

Mandino, Og

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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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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Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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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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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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

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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.

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You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Peters, Thomas J.