Motivational Quotes

Excellence

I start where the last man left off.

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Riley, Pat

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

Floyd, Ray

Excellence is best described as doing the right things right -- selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

Aristotle

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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

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

Hazlitt, William

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Berry, Wendell

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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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It isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.

Malloch, Douglas

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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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Sands, Bill

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You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spectacular, don't show up in the morning paper.

Goodsell, Jane

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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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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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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Schwartz, David J.

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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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Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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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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The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Waitley, Denis

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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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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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Wooden, John

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The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.

Powers, Melvin

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre