Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Sill, Edward Rowland

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

10.

The road to excellence is always under construction

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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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Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.

Vickery, A. Lou

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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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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 noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Mandino, Og

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With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

Aristotle

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Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Robinson, James H.

28.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Heifetz, Jascha

30.

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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The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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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

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

Wooden, John

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Berry, Wendell

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

Riley, Pat

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

Feinstein, Dianne