Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- O'Connor, Flannery

Best Quotes about Excellence

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Wilde, Oscar

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.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Berry, Wendell

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

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Wooden, John

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

Brown, Les

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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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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It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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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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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

Getty, J. Paul

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hazlitt, William

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You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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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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.