Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Sill, Edward Rowland

Best Quotes about Excellence

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Mandino, Og

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

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.

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

Mead, Shepherd

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Sands, Bill

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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 sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

29.

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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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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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 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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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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

35.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

Mcdonald, John

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

Keats, John

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

Newton, Howard W.

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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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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