Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Hazlitt, William

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.

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Shakespeare, William

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

John F. Kennedy

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.

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.

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Robinson, James H.

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

Garfield, Charles A.

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Keats, John

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

19.

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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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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Thomas, Lowell

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Aristotle

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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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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

31.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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Today, and every day, 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. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive. You deserve them!

Mandino, Og

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

Berry, Wendell

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

Roddick, Anita

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

Ford, Henry

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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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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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Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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.