Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Heifetz, Jascha

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

Aristotle

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

I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

11.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the best in your chosen field, whatever it is.

Mitchell, Don G.

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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

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

Getty, J. Paul

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We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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

Gardner, John W.

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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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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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You always have to give 100 percent, because if you don't, someone, someplace, will give 100 percent and will beat you when you meet.

Macauley, Ed

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

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

Riley, Pat

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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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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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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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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Keats, John

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steer is the way to it.

Hesiod