Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

- Gardner, John W.

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Wooden, John

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

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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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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

13.

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

Sallust

15.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Washington, Booker T.

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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

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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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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There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish.

Lucado, Max L.

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

Mcdonald, John

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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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

31.

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

Floyd, Ray

33.

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Mandino, Og

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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

43.

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 must do the best we can with what we have.

Sill, Edward Rowland

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A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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 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.