Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Excellence

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.

The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.

Powers, Melvin

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Marden, Orison Swett

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Aristotle

10.

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

11.

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

Mandino, Og

12.

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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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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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

22.

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 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.

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

Mcdonald, John

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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

27.

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

28.

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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Excellence is best described as doing the right things right -- selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

30.

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

Washington, Booker T.

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If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

34.

Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

Robinson, James H.

35.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

46.

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

Berry, Wendell

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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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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 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