Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.

Sands, Bill

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

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

Powers, Melvin

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

Hazlitt, William

Don't waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence -- doing your best.

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Keats, John

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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Washington, Booker T.

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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.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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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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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We must do the best we can with what we have.

Sill, Edward Rowland

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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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.

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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

Marden, Orison Swett

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert 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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.