Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

- Gardner, John W.

Best Quotes about Excellence

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Pearl Buck

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Young, Steve

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

Mansfield, Katherine

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

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

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Wooden, John

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

Riley, Pat

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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

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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Feinstein, Dianne

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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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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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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Excellence is best described as doing the right things right -- selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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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

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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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

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

Schwartz, David J.

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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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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Aristotle

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

Berry, Wendell

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

Thomas, Lowell

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The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey