Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Watson, Thomas J.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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.

Mandino, Og

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steer is the way to it.

Hesiod

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.

Gaberino, Geoffrey

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.

Powers, Melvin

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

Hurt, William

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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

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Berry, Wendell

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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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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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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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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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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

40.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Mandino, Og

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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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The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do -- they always reach.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Hazlitt, William

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

Mcdonald, John

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre