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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Trevino, Lee

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

Floyd, Ray

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Young, Steve

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Scott, Sir Walter

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

11.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

Ford, Henry

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If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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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

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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It isn't what you do, but how you do it.

Wooden, John

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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

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

Thomas, Lowell

32.

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

Robinson, James H.

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It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mandino, Og

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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It isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.

Malloch, Douglas

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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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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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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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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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If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

O'Connor, Flannery