Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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.

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

O'Connor, Flannery

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Schwartz, David J.

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

Keats, John

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The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.

Powers, Melvin

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The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

Garfield, Charles A.

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Wooden, John

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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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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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

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Washington, Booker T.

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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Feinstein, Dianne

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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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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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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Aristotle

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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.