Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Doing common things uncommonly well.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Keats, 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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Feinstein, Dianne

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

Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Aristotle

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

Roddick, Anita

10.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority...

Marden, Orison Swett

11.

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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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

13.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Mandino, Og

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

15.

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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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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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

18.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

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

23.

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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Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

Marden, Orison Swett

25.

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 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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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

28.

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

Gardner, John W.

29.

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 have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Wilde, Oscar

31.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Heifetz, Jascha

37.

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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It isn't what you do, but how you do it.

Wooden, John

39.

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

Robinson, James H.

40.

The road to excellence is always under construction

41.

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.

42.

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

Shakespeare, William

43.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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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

49.

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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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