Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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.

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Today, and every day, 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. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive. You deserve them!

Mandino, Og

The road to excellence is always under construction

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Young, Steve

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

Marden, Orison Swett

People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it.

Newton, Howard W.

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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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

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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Riley, Pat

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Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Shakespeare, William

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

Mandino, Og

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Gardner, John W.

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Anybody who accepts mediocrity -- in school, on the job, in life -- is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.

Knight, Charles

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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 takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can reach. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries and predecessors; try to be better than yourself.

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

Malloch, Douglas

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Heifetz, Jascha