Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Excellence

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.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

Marden, Orison Swett

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

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

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

Robinson, James H.

10.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

11.

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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art -- an individual masterpiece.

Waitley, Denis

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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

15.

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

16.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

17.

I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

18.

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

19.

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

Thomas, Lowell

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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.

22.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

24.

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

Mcdonald, John

25.

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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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

27.

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

John F. Kennedy

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

30.

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

Hurt, William

31.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

32.

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

Mandino, Og

33.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Shakespeare, William

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It is only in your mind that you have to excel, at anything or everything. Of course, it would be very nice to excel at most things. Indeed, we recommend that you try and do your best. But realistically, you are entitled to do the bare minimum to get by. All your accomplishments are just a bonus, something to enjoy, not requirements. You don't have to do anything to prove that you are worthy of existing.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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

Hill, Napoleon

39.

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

Trevino, Lee

40.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority...

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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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 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

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

45.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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