Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Mcdonald, John

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Mandino, Og

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

Young, Steve

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

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.

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

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

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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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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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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The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do -- they always reach.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

John F. Kennedy

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Hazlitt, William

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Robinson, James H.

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Feinstein, Dianne

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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

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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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...