Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Excellence

You must be resolutely determined that whatever you do shall always be the best of which you are capable.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

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

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

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

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

John F. Kennedy

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Waitley, Denis

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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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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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

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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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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

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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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You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

Hurt, William

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Keats, John

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hazlitt, William

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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 want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Malloch, Douglas