Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Carnegie, Andrew

There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

11.

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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

13.

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

Malloch, Douglas

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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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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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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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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You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spectacular, don't show up in the morning paper.

Goodsell, Jane

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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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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

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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

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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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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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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

O'Connor, Flannery

27.

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

Roddick, Anita

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

29.

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 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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Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steer is the way to it.

Hesiod

32.

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

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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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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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do -- they always reach.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Powers, Melvin

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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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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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