Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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.

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Aristotle

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

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

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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

11.

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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

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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

16.

The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

Garfield, Charles A.

17.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

19.

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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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Aristotle

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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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Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.

Peters, Thomas J.

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

28.

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

Wooden, John

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

31.

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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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

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

Floyd, Ray

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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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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

Thomas, Lowell

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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Trevino, Lee

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

Riley, Pat

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