Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Doing common things uncommonly well.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Excellence

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mcdonald, John

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

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

Sands, Bill

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

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

I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Riley, Pat

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Mandino, Og

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Berry, Wendell

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

Darwin, Francis

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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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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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

John F. Kennedy

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Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark...

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.

Vickery, A. Lou

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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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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Newton, Howard W.

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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 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.