Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Sir Winston Churchill

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Sallust

10.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

11.

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

12.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

13.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can reach. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries and predecessors; try to be better than yourself.

14.

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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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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Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steer is the way to it.

Hesiod

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

18.

Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark...

Marden, Orison Swett

19.

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

Berry, Wendell

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

Riley, Pat

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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

23.

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

24.

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

25.

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

Feinstein, Dianne

26.

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

27.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

29.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

30.

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

31.

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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Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

Ogilvy, David

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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.

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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

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

42.

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

Trevino, Lee

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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

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

Gardner, John W.

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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

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The road to excellence is always under construction

48.

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

49.

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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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