Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Sands, Bill

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

Lincoln, Abraham

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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.

10.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

11.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Riley, Pat

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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 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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Mandino, Og

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

Keats, John

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

John F. Kennedy

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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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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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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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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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 sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

35.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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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 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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

42.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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