Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Riley, Pat

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

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

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Mandino, Og

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

14.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

John F. Kennedy

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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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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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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.

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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

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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.

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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 can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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It isn't what you do, but how you do it.

Wooden, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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You always have to give 100 percent, because if you don't, someone, someplace, will give 100 percent and will beat you when you meet.

Macauley, Ed

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Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

Ogilvy, David

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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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We must do the best we can with what we have.

Sill, Edward Rowland

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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 to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Thomas, Lowell

45.

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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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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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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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Marden, Orison Swett