Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Robinson, James H.

Best Quotes about Excellence

The road to excellence is always under construction

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

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Schwartz, David J.

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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Floyd, Ray

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Keats, John

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Robinson, James H.

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Feinstein, Dianne

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

Aristotle

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

Malloch, Douglas

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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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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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When you say you'll meet someone at 11:00 AM, be there at 10:45. When you promise a check on the 30th, send it on the 28th. Whatever you agree to do, do it a bit more. Start with your employees, then extend it to everyone you deal with. News will soon get around that you are a person of your word.

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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 more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.

Sands, Bill

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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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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.