Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Berry, Wendell

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Aristotle

Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Pearl Buck

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Mead, Shepherd

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Trevino, Lee

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No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.

Pollock, Channing

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Floyd, Ray

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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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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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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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Malloch, Douglas

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

Ogilvy, David

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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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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.

Garcia, Jerry

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.