Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Mcdonald, John

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

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

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

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

Schwartz, David J.

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Owens, Jesse

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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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If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.

Floyd, Ray

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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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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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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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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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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You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spectacular, don't show up in the morning paper.

Goodsell, Jane

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.

Aristotle

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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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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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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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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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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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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

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von