Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- O'Connor, Flannery

Best Quotes about Excellence

I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

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

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

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

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

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

O'Connor, Flannery

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Berry, Wendell

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Keats, John

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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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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Newton, Howard 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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The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do...

Schwartz, David J.

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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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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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 fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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The road to excellence is always under construction

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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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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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With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

Aristotle

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Mandino, Og

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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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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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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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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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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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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Peters, Thomas J.