Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Good enough never is.

- Field, Debbi

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

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

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Washington, Booker T.

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

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

Getty, J. Paul

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

10.

Let each day be your masterpiece.

11.

I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Keats, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.

Floyd, Ray

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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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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 renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

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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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Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.

Sands, Bill

31.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. There is a special sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in its parts, which the superficial person who leaves his or her work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition, can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns any work into art. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

Mandino, Og

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

38.

I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

John F. Kennedy

40.

Excellence is best described as doing the right things right -- selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

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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 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

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steer is the way to it.

Hesiod

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

Berry, Wendell

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich