Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

Malloch, Douglas

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

Watson, Thomas J.

I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Mandino, Og

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

Darwin, Francis

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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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I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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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.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Berry, Wendell

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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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

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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Riley, Pat

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

Aristotle

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Peters, Thomas 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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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 is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable.

Mandino, Og

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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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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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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.