Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Mcdonald, John

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Feinstein, Dianne

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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

11.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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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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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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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

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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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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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Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

21.

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

Mead, Shepherd

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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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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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

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

39.

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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If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Roddick, Anita

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Robinson, James H.

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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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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It isn't what you do, but how you do it.

Wooden, John

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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

50.

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