Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Floyd, Ray

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Aristotle

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Wilde, Oscar

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

15.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Newton, Howard W.

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Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

30.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

31.

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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To do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way; to do some things better than they were ever done before; to eliminate errors; to know both sides of the question; to be courteous; to be an example; to work for the love of work; to anticipate requirements; to develop resources; to recognize no impediments; to master circumstances; to act from reason rather than rule; to be satisfied with nothing short of perfection.

Marshall Field & Company

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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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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

43.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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When you say you'll meet someone at 11:00 AM, be there at 10:45. When you promise a check on the 30th, send it on the 28th. Whatever you agree to do, do it a bit more. Start with your employees, then extend it to everyone you deal with. News will soon get around that you are a person of your word.

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

47.

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

Carlyle, Thomas