Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Malloch, Douglas

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

John F. Kennedy

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Waitley, Denis

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Aristotle

Anybody who accepts mediocrity -- in school, on the job, in life -- is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.

Knight, Charles

10.

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

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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Roddick, Anita

23.

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.

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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 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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

Keats, John

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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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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The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

Gardner, John W.

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Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hall-mark of excellence.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Sallust

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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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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.