Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Feinstein, Dianne

Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that little more which is worth all the rest.

Briggs, Dean

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

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

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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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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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 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

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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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From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Keats, John

18.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

19.

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art -- an individual masterpiece.

Waitley, Denis

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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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 success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do...

Schwartz, David J.

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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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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

29.

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

Malloch, Douglas

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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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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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I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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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.

36.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Newton, Howard 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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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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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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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

44.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

46.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Sallust

49.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.