Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Powers, Melvin

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Marden, Orison Swett

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aristotle

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

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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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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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

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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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

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 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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From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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It is only in your mind that you have to excel, at anything or everything. Of course, it would be very nice to excel at most things. Indeed, we recommend that you try and do your best. But realistically, you are entitled to do the bare minimum to get by. All your accomplishments are just a bonus, something to enjoy, not requirements. You don't have to do anything to prove that you are worthy of existing.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Wooden, John

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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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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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If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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

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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

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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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It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Hill, Napoleon