Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Edison, Thomas A.

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

Mead, Shepherd

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

When you say you'll meet someone at 11:00 AM, be there at 10:45. When you promise a check on the 30th, send it on the 28th. Whatever you agree to do, do it a bit more. Start with your employees, then extend it to everyone you deal with. News will soon get around that you are a person of your word.

Scott, Charles Prestwich

Aristotle

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.

Don't waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence -- doing your best.

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

10.

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

Aristotle

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert 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

17.

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

18.

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

Berry, Wendell

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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

20.

You must be resolutely determined that whatever you do shall always be the best of which you are capable.

Popplestone, Charles E.

21.

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

Sands, Bill

22.

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

Mcdonald, John

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

Trevino, Lee

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

Riley, Pat

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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

27.

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

28.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

Keats, John

29.

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

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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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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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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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 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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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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

44.

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

45.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

49.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo