Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Schwartz, David J.

Best Quotes about Excellence

There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

Mill, John Stuart

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Robinson, James H.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Sallust

Excellence is best described as doing the right things right -- selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

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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The road to excellence is always under construction

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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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From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Berry, Wendell

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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 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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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Mandino, Og

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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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