Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Berry, Wendell

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Robinson, James H.

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

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

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

Washington, Booker T.

The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

Garfield, Charles A.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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.

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

Riley, Pat

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

16.

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

Berry, Wendell

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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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

19.

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.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Mandino, Og

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There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

Heifetz, Jascha

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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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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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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable.

Mandino, Og

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If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.

Garcia, Jerry

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest. I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.

Truman, Harry S

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Sallust

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Keats, John

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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