Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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.

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Berry, Wendell

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

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

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hill, Napoleon

Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.

Sands, Bill

You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.

Garcia, Jerry

10.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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The road to excellence is always under construction

12.

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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Hazlitt, William

24.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

28.

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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Riley, Pat

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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.

34.

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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Heifetz, Jascha

39.

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

40.

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

Floyd, Ray

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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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

48.

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

Newton, Howard W.