Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Young, Steve

People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Owens, Jesse

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

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

Schwartz, David J.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

10.

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

Wilde, Oscar

11.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

14.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gracian, Baltasar

16.

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

Mcdonald, John

17.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

18.

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

19.

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

Mandino, Og

20.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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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.

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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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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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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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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

27.

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

28.

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

Feinstein, Dianne

29.

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

30.

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

Aristotle

31.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

32.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

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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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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

36.

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 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

43.

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

John F. Kennedy

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

O'Connor, Flannery

46.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

47.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

48.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

49.

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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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