Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

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

Washington, Booker T.

I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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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 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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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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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 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

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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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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

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

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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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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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I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Mcdonald, John

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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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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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Sir Winston Churchill