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

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the best in your chosen field, whatever it is.

Mitchell, Don G.

The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do...

Schwartz, David J.

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

Mead, Shepherd

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

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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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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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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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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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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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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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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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.

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Floyd, Ray

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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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

Thomas, Lowell

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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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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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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