Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Mandino, Og

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

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

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

The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.

Powers, Melvin

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

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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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

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

Floyd, Ray

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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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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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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

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One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

Brown, Les

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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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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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Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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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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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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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 start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

Michener, James 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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Riley, Pat

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.