Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Good enough never is.

- Field, Debbi

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Owens, Jesse

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

Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

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

Malloch, Douglas

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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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.

Mandino, Og

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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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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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Thomas, Lowell

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The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do...

Schwartz, David J.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator rather than catering to it.

Fischer, Edward

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Mcdonald, John

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Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Berry, Wendell

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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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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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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 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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One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

Brown, Les

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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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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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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 must do the best we can with what we have.

Sill, Edward Rowland

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The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

Ford, Henry

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Powers, Melvin

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Don't waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence -- doing your best.

Olivier, Sir Lawrence