Motivational Quotes

Excellence

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

O'Connor, Flannery

A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Hurt, William

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.

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

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

To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

Mcdonald, John

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

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Feinstein, Dianne

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

Riley, Pat

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

Mandino, Og

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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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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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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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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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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 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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

25.

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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Wooden, 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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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Roddick, Anita

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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 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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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