Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Carnegie, Andrew

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Lincoln, Abraham

The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.

Powers, Melvin

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

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

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

Keats, John

I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Robinson, James H.

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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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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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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Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

Gardner, John W.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.

Aristotle

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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

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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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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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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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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

Berry, Wendell

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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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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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Waitley, Denis

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard