Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Good enough never is.

- Field, Debbi

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Hill, Napoleon

Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. There is a special sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in its parts, which the superficial person who leaves his or her work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition, can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns any work into art. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

Mandino, Og

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Sands, Bill

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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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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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

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

Mcdonald, John

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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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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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 noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Aristotle

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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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

28.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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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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Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

Gardner, John W.

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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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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Roddick, Anita

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Malloch, Douglas

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.