Motivational Quotes

Excellence

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Keats, 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

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

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Washington, Booker T.

We must do the best we can with what we have.

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Malloch, Douglas

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Young, Steve

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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 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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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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