Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

Hurt, William

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Gracian, Baltasar

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

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.

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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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 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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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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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

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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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.

16.

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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

18.

I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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

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

Aristotle

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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

28.

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

Keats, John

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

32.

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

Berry, Wendell

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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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The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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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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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

49.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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Today, and every day, 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. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive. You deserve them!

Mandino, Og