Motivational Quotes

Excellence

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Shakespeare, William

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

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 road to excellence is always under construction

Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

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

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 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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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Mandino, Og

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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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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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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

18.

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

Berry, Wendell

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Today, and every day, 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. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive. You deserve them!

Mandino, Og

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Mcdonald, John

30.

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.

31.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Riley, Pat

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.

Floyd, Ray

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

Darwin, Francis

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

Young, Steve