Motivational Quotes

Excellence

It isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.

- Malloch, Douglas

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Trevino, Lee

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Aristotle

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

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

10.

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

11.

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

Washington, Booker T.

12.

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.

13.

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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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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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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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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When you say you'll meet someone at 11:00 AM, be there at 10:45. When you promise a check on the 30th, send it on the 28th. Whatever you agree to do, do it a bit more. Start with your employees, then extend it to everyone you deal with. News will soon get around that you are a person of your word.

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

23.

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

Mandino, Og

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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

25.

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Roddick, Anita

26.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

27.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Shakespeare, William

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

Watson, Thomas J.

33.

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

43.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Wooden, John

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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

46.

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

Feinstein, Dianne

47.

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

Sallust

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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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 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