Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

John F. Kennedy

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 is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Gracian, Baltasar

Resolve to make each day the very best and don't let anyone get in your way. If they do, step on them.

Benson, Ivan

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Wooden, John

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Wilde, Oscar

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

27.

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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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

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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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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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It isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.

Malloch, Douglas

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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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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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

35.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Keats, John

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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 man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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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We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Aristotle

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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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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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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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.