Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

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

Sallust

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

Schwartz, David J.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Mead, Shepherd

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If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Mcdonald, John

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

Robinson, James H.

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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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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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Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art -- an individual masterpiece.

Waitley, Denis

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

Riley, Pat

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Berry, Wendell

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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

25.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Thomas, Lowell

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Hurt, William

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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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.