Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Gracian, Baltasar

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Hazlitt, William

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Washington, Booker T.

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

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

Edison, Thomas 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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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

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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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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The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

Michener, James A.

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

Mcdonald, John

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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Wooden, John

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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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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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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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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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

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

Gardner, John W.

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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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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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The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Young, Steve

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

Mansfield, Katherine