Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

- Mckain, Robert J.

Best Quotes about Excellence

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.

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

Mcdonald, John

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

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

Keats, John

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

Robinson, James H.

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

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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

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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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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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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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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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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 one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Berry, Wendell

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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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