Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.

Sands, Bill

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

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Riley, Pat

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

Robinson, James H.

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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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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With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

Aristotle

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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

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Anybody who accepts mediocrity -- in school, on the job, in life -- is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.

Knight, Charles

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If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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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 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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Thomas, Lowell

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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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There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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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.