Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

John F. Kennedy

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

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

Roddick, Anita

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

Sands, Bill

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

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Riley, Pat

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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Anybody who accepts mediocrity -- in school, on the job, in life -- is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.

Knight, Charles

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

Wooden, John

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Keats, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Thomas, Lowell

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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

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do -- they always reach.

Iacocca, Lee

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The road to excellence is always under construction

29.

People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Owens, Jesse

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

Hazlitt, William

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Mead, Shepherd

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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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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 real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.

Gaberino, Geoffrey

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Aristotle

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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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