Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

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

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

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Trevino, Lee

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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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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 start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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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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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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Riley, Pat

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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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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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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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It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Today, and every day, 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. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive. You deserve them!

Mandino, Og

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The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Young, Steve

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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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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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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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

John F. Kennedy