Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Doing common things uncommonly well.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

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

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

10.

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

11.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Waitley, Denis

13.

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

Hurt, William

14.

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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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.

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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.

17.

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

18.

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

19.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Gardner, John W.

23.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Riley, Pat

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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 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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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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Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

Ogilvy, David

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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

34.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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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

38.

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

Berry, Wendell

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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

40.

To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

Mcdonald, John

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Keats, John

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The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Roddick, Anita

46.

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 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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

49.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von