Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

- Rorty, Richard

Best Quotes about Excellence

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 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.

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

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

Sir Winston Churchill

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Young, Steve

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

John F. Kennedy

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

Mead, Shepherd

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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 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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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 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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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Floyd, Ray

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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

Heifetz, Jascha

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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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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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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Keats, John

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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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Malloch, Douglas

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.