Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Riley, Pat

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

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

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

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

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

Schwartz, David J.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Keats, John

11.

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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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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

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

Wooden, John

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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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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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If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Trevino, Lee

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It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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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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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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

34.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

Gardner, John W.

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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Robinson, James H.

42.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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