Motivational Quotes

Excellence

You must be resolutely determined that whatever you do shall always be the best of which you are capable.

- Popplestone, Charles E.

Best Quotes about Excellence

Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that little more which is worth all the rest.

Briggs, Dean

The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.

Powers, Melvin

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.

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

Roddick, Anita

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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 have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Berry, Wendell

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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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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 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.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Riley, Pat

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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 noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art -- an individual masterpiece.

Waitley, Denis

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

Sallust

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Anybody who accepts mediocrity -- in school, on the job, in life -- is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.

Knight, Charles

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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

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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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If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.