Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Keats, John

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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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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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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You must be resolutely determined that whatever you do shall always be the best of which you are capable.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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To do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way; to do some things better than they were ever done before; to eliminate errors; to know both sides of the question; to be courteous; to be an example; to work for the love of work; to anticipate requirements; to develop resources; to recognize no impediments; to master circumstances; to act from reason rather than rule; to be satisfied with nothing short of perfection.

Marshall Field & Company

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To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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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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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.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

Riley, Pat

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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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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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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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Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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.