Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

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.

I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Roddick, Anita

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

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

10.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

11.

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

Trevino, Lee

12.

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Hurt, William

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

Marden, Orison Swett

18.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

19.

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

Floyd, Ray

20.

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

Powers, Melvin

21.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

24.

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

25.

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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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.

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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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Today, and every day, 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. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive. You deserve them!

Mandino, Og

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

John F. Kennedy

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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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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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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

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

Thomas, Lowell

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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

40.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Newton, Howard W.

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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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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Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

Gardner, John W.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

50.

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

Mandino, Og