Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Mcdonald, John

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.

Floyd, Ray

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

Excellence is best described as doing the right things right -- selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

11.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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It isn't what you do, but how you do it.

Wooden, John

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

John F. Kennedy

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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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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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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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Resolve to make each day the very best and don't let anyone get in your way. If they do, step on them.

Benson, Ivan

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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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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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.

Garcia, Jerry

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

Trevino, Lee

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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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

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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Newton, Howard W.

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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There's a way to do better... find it.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Keats, John

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

Hazlitt, William

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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.

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