Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Hurt, William

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

John F. Kennedy

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Young, Steve

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

If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

Mead, Shepherd

I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away.

Fields, Debbie

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Aristotle

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Mcdonald, John

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Sallust

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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

Wooden, John

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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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Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Newton, Howard W.

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Gardner, John W.

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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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

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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

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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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

Marden, Orison Swett

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From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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 the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Riley, Pat

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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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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Excellence is best described as doing the right things right -- selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.