Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- John F. Kennedy

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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The road to excellence is always under construction

12.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Riley, Pat

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

22.

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

25.

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

Gardner, John W.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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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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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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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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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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No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.

Pollock, Channing

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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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Washington, Booker T.

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It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hazlitt, William

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence