Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Good enough never is.

- Field, Debbi

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Mandino, Og

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

10.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

12.

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

13.

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

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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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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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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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

18.

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

19.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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

22.

I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

23.

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.

24.

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

John F. Kennedy

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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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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

27.

People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it.

Newton, Howard W.

28.

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Mansfield, Katherine

30.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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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

32.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

34.

One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Hazlitt, William

35.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

36.

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 road to excellence is always under construction

38.

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

Sands, Bill

39.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

40.

With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

Aristotle

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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

42.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Tracy, Brian

43.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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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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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

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

47.

I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

48.

Let each day be your masterpiece.

49.

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

50.

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