Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Heifetz, Jascha

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Keats, John

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

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

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Riley, Pat

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

Berry, Wendell

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

Mead, Shepherd

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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 sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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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.

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Mandino, Og

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 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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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 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

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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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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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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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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

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