Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Riley, Pat

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

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

Newton, Howard W.

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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Robinson, James H.

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.

Gaberino, Geoffrey

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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

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

Washington, Booker T.

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The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do -- they always reach.

Iacocca, Lee

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It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Keats, John

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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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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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If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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