Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Malloch, Douglas

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do...

Schwartz, David J.

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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Mandino, Og

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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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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You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Tracy, Brian

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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It is only in your mind that you have to excel, at anything or everything. Of course, it would be very nice to excel at most things. Indeed, we recommend that you try and do your best. But realistically, you are entitled to do the bare minimum to get by. All your accomplishments are just a bonus, something to enjoy, not requirements. You don't have to do anything to prove that you are worthy of existing.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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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 idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

Gardner, John W.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Hill, Napoleon

28.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it.

Newton, Howard W.

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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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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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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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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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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

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Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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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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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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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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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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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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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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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