Motivational Quotes

Excellence

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

- Publilius Syrus

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Washington, Booker T.

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.

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

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

Robinson, James H.

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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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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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The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

John F. Kennedy

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

Sallust

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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Floyd, Ray

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You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spectacular, don't show up in the morning paper.

Goodsell, Jane

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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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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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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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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It isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.

Malloch, Douglas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Wooden, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Thomas, Lowell

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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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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