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

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

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

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.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Mcdonald, John

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Aristotle

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.

Gaberino, Geoffrey

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Hurt, William

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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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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 distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Keats, John

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

Berry, Wendell

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art -- an individual masterpiece.

Waitley, Denis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Riley, Pat

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

Robinson, James H.

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

John F. Kennedy