Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Malloch, Douglas

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

10.

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

Sallust

11.

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

Mead, Shepherd

12.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

13.

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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Resolve to make each day the very best and don't let anyone get in your way. If they do, step on them.

Benson, Ivan

15.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

20.

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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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

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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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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

25.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

26.

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

Trevino, Lee

27.

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

Marden, Orison Swett

28.

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

Hurt, William

29.

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

30.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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

32.

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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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

34.

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

Hazlitt, William

35.

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.

Mandino, Og

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If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.

Floyd, Ray

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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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

39.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

40.

The road to excellence is always under construction

41.

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

Wooden, 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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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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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

45.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark...

Marden, Orison Swett

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