Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Sir Winston Churchill

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

Thomas, Lowell

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

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

To do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way; to do some things better than they were ever done before; to eliminate errors; to know both sides of the question; to be courteous; to be an example; to work for the love of work; to anticipate requirements; to develop resources; to recognize no impediments; to master circumstances; to act from reason rather than rule; to be satisfied with nothing short of perfection.

Marshall Field & Company

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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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One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. There is a special sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in its parts, which the superficial person who leaves his or her work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition, can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns any work into art. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

Mandino, Og

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

Keats, John

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

Marden, Orison Swett

15.

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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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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Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.

Vickery, A. Lou

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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

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

Sir Winston Churchill

20.

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

25.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

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With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

Aristotle

28.

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

Malloch, Douglas

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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

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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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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

33.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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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Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

Meyer, Paul J.

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

40.

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

Ford, Henry

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

Peters, Thomas J.

44.

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Riley, Pat

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It isn't what you do, but how you do it.

Wooden, John

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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.