Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Mcdonald, John

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Washington, Booker T.

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

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

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Malloch, Douglas

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Riley, Pat

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

Berry, Wendell

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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

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If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

Mead, Shepherd

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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.

30.

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

Mcdonald, John

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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.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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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

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

43.

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

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Young, Steve

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If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Roddick, Anita

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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

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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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Lincoln, Abraham