Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Feinstein, Dianne

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.

Mandino, Og

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

Robinson, James H.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

Ogilvy, David

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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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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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There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

Darwin, Francis

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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 no top. There are always further heights to reach.

Heifetz, Jascha

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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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.

Floyd, Ray

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

Mandino, Og

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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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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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It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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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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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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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Scott, Sir Walter

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Edison, Thomas A.