Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Hazlitt, William

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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Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.

Vickery, A. Lou

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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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The road to excellence is always under construction

25.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away.

Fields, Debbie

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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 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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I start where the last man left off.

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 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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You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spectacular, don't show up in the morning paper.

Goodsell, Jane

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Mandino, Og

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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Riley, Pat

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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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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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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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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