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

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

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

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

You must be resolutely determined that whatever you do shall always be the best of which you are capable.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

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

Wooden, John

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

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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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To do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way; to do some things better than they were ever done before; to eliminate errors; to know both sides of the question; to be courteous; to be an example; to work for the love of work; to anticipate requirements; to develop resources; to recognize no impediments; to master circumstances; to act from reason rather than rule; to be satisfied with nothing short of perfection.

Marshall Field & Company

11.

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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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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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

14.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

15.

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

Thomas, Lowell

16.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

17.

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

18.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

20.

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

21.

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

John F. Kennedy

22.

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

Mcdonald, John

23.

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

24.

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

Schwartz, David J.

25.

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

Robinson, James H.

26.

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

Newton, Howard W.

27.

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

Malloch, Douglas

31.

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

Hazlitt, William

32.

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

33.

I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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 we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

Mead, Shepherd

38.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

39.

The road to excellence is always under construction

40.

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

Keats, John

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

44.

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

45.

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

Aristotle

47.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

48.

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.

49.

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

Trevino, Lee

50.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard