Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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.

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

Aristotle

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

Mandino, Og

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.

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Young, Steve

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

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

Mcdonald, John

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Don't waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence -- doing your best.

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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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

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

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

Aristotle

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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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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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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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 no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

Roddick, Anita

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Owens, Jesse

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

Sallust

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Floyd, Ray

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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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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You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Tracy, Brian

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Marden, Orison Swett