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

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

Wooden, 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

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

Roddick, Anita

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Let each day be your masterpiece.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Feinstein, Dianne

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

Powers, Melvin

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

Thomas, Lowell

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Hazlitt, William

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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Today, and every day, 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. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive. You deserve them!

Mandino, Og

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Berry, Wendell

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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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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.

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