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

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

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Aristotle

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.

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Keats, John

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Hazlitt, William

Excellence is best described as doing the right things right -- selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Riley, Pat

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Malloch, Douglas

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The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.

Gaberino, Geoffrey

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Sallust

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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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Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Mcdonald, John

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

Berry, Wendell

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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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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

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