Motivational Quotes

Excellence

It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Waitley, Denis

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

Gardner, John W.

I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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

Keats, John

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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It isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.

Malloch, Douglas

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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

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People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Owens, Jesse

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Washington, Booker T.

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Feinstein, Dianne

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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 is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Riley, Pat

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Aristotle

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Aristotle

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

Ogilvy, David

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

Berry, Wendell

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Sallust

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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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To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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.

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One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

Brown, Les

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Powers, Melvin

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