Motivational Quotes

Excellence

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

- Goldsmith, Oliver

Best Quotes about Excellence

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Waitley, Denis

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

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Roddick, Anita

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

Mcdonald, John

It is only in your mind that you have to excel, at anything or everything. Of course, it would be very nice to excel at most things. Indeed, we recommend that you try and do your best. But realistically, you are entitled to do the bare minimum to get by. All your accomplishments are just a bonus, something to enjoy, not requirements. You don't have to do anything to prove that you are worthy of existing.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.

Garcia, Jerry

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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When you say you'll meet someone at 11:00 AM, be there at 10:45. When you promise a check on the 30th, send it on the 28th. Whatever you agree to do, do it a bit more. Start with your employees, then extend it to everyone you deal with. News will soon get around that you are a person of your word.

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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

Young, Steve

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

Wooden, John

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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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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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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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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Berry, Wendell

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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Riley, Pat

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sands, Bill

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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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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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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Aristotle

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

Mandino, Og

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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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There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.