Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Excellence

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.

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

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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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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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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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Berry, Wendell

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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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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 sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Malloch, Douglas

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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

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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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert 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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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