Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Good enough never is.

- Field, Debbi

Best Quotes about Excellence

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

John F. Kennedy

Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

Ogilvy, David

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

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Feinstein, Dianne

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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

O'Connor, Flannery

10.

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

11.

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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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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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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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

16.

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

17.

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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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's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

Sir Winston Churchill

20.

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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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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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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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Thomas, Lowell

28.

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

Roddick, Anita

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

30.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Heifetz, Jascha

33.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Lincoln, Abraham

34.

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

Hazlitt, William

35.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Gardner, John W.

40.

No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.

Pollock, Channing

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

Malloch, Douglas

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

Keats, John

46.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Wooden, John

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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