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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Aristotle

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

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Trevino, Lee

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

Sallust

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

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mandino, Og

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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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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The road to excellence is always under construction

13.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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

27.

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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

Lombardi, Vince

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If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.

Floyd, Ray

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Washington, Booker T.

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Riley, Pat

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

Hazlitt, William

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Roddick, Anita

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If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator rather than catering to it.

Fischer, Edward

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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