Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Roddick, Anita

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

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Trevino, Lee

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 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

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

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

Michener, James A.

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

Robinson, James H.

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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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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Newton, Howard W.

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

O'Connor, Flannery

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Mcdonald, John

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Gracian, Baltasar