Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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.

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

Hurt, William

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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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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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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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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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To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

Mcdonald, John

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art -- an individual masterpiece.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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

Aristotle

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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When you say you'll meet someone at 11:00 AM, be there at 10:45. When you promise a check on the 30th, send it on the 28th. Whatever you agree to do, do it a bit more. Start with your employees, then extend it to everyone you deal with. News will soon get around that you are a person of your word.

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

John F. Kennedy

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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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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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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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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Tracy, Brian

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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You must be resolutely determined that whatever you do shall always be the best of which you are capable.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Thomas, Lowell