Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Newton, Howard W.

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Mcdonald, John

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.

If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator rather than catering to it.

Fischer, Edward

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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.

10.

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

Waitley, Denis

11.

Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

12.

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

John F. Kennedy

13.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Marden, Orison Swett

16.

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

Malloch, Douglas

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Thomas, Lowell

21.

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

22.

The road to excellence is always under construction

23.

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

Hurt, William

24.

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

25.

There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Berry, Wendell

29.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

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

31.

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

Powers, Melvin

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Robinson, James H.

35.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

36.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

38.

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

39.

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

Riley, Pat

40.

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

Keats, John

41.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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.

47.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

48.

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

49.

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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.