Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do...

Schwartz, David J.

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

Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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.

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

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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 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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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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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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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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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 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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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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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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The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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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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The road to excellence is always under construction

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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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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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Mcdonald, John

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To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Aristotle

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Roddick, Anita

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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