Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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.

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

O'Connor, Flannery

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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We must do the best we can with what we have.

Sill, Edward Rowland

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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

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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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Kingsley, Charles

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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

Hazlitt, William

28.

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

Mead, Shepherd

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

Riley, Pat

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Today, and every day, 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. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive. You deserve them!

Mandino, Og

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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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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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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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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

Gardner, John W.

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

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.