Motivational Quotes

Excellence

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Excellence

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

Darwin, Francis

It isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.

Malloch, Douglas

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

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

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

Trevino, Lee

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can reach. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries and predecessors; try to be better than yourself.

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It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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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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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 made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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

Thomas, Lowell

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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 use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away.

Fields, Debbie

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Riley, Pat

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mandino, Og

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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 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

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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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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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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Hazlitt, William

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