Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Newton, Howard W.

Best Quotes about Excellence

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

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

Thomas, Lowell

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Keats, John

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

Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

Ogilvy, David

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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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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Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.

Sands, Bill

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It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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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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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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Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

Gardner, John W.

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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Berry, Wendell

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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 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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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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The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.

Powers, Melvin

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Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.

Vickery, A. Lou

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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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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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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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To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Aristotle

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

Floyd, Ray

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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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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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