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

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

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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

O'Connor, Flannery

Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Malloch, Douglas

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

Aristotle

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Hazlitt, William

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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 noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Mandino, Og

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Keats, John

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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 can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

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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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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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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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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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If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Roddick, Anita

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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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

John F. Kennedy

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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

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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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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 is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

Berry, Wendell

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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