Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

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

Malloch, Douglas

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

You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.

Garcia, Jerry

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

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Wooden, John

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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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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.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

18.

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

Mcdonald, John

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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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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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can reach. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries and predecessors; try to be better than yourself.

25.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

26.

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.

27.

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

Roddick, Anita

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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

29.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

30.

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

Newton, Howard W.

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You always have to give 100 percent, because if you don't, someone, someplace, will give 100 percent and will beat you when you meet.

Macauley, Ed

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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

33.

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

Berry, Wendell

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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

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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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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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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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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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

41.

Let each day be your masterpiece.

42.

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

Keats, John

43.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.