Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Hill, Napoleon

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Keats, John

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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

Berry, Wendell

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Hazlitt, William

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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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

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

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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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People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Owens, Jesse

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

Robinson, James H.

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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 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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Kingsley, Charles

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You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spectacular, don't show up in the morning paper.

Goodsell, Jane

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Trevino, Lee

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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