Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

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

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can reach. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries and predecessors; try to be better than yourself.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

25.

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

Berry, Wendell

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

Thomas, Lowell

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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To do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way; to do some things better than they were ever done before; to eliminate errors; to know both sides of the question; to be courteous; to be an example; to work for the love of work; to anticipate requirements; to develop resources; to recognize no impediments; to master circumstances; to act from reason rather than rule; to be satisfied with nothing short of perfection.

Marshall Field & Company

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

Michener, James A.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Floyd, Ray

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A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Malloch, Douglas

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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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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