Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Feinstein, Dianne

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Riley, Pat

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Mandino, Og

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Wooden, John

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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 to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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 success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do...

Schwartz, David J.

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

Hazlitt, William

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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Mead, Shepherd

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

Mcdonald, John

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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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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.