Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Sands, Bill

Best Quotes about Excellence

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

The road to excellence is always under construction

Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

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

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

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

Washington, Booker T.

Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hall-mark of excellence.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art -- an individual masterpiece.

Waitley, Denis

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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.

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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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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Shakespeare, William

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

Gardner, John W.

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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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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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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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Carlyle, Thomas