Motivational Quotes

Excellence

There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish.

- Lucado, Max L.

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Feinstein, Dianne

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

10.

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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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 start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Robinson, James H.

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There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

Heifetz, Jascha

18.

Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Roddick, Anita

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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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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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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With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

Aristotle

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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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Don't waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence -- doing your best.

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

29.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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 no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. There is a special sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in its parts, which the superficial person who leaves his or her work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition, can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns any work into art. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

Mandino, Og

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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

48.

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

Trevino, Lee

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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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre