Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Excellence

Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Trevino, Lee

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Shakespeare, William

There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish.

Lucado, Max L.

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

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

Malloch, Douglas

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.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Resolve to make each day the very best and don't let anyone get in your way. If they do, step on them.

Benson, Ivan

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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

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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

O'Connor, Flannery

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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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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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People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it.

Newton, Howard W.

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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Thomas, Lowell

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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

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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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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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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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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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Excellence is best described as doing the right things right -- selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

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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

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Riley, Pat

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To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Roddick, Anita

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

Berry, Wendell

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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