Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Let each day be your masterpiece.

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Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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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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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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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Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the best in your chosen field, whatever it is.

Mitchell, Don G.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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To do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way; to do some things better than they were ever done before; to eliminate errors; to know both sides of the question; to be courteous; to be an example; to work for the love of work; to anticipate requirements; to develop resources; to recognize no impediments; to master circumstances; to act from reason rather than rule; to be satisfied with nothing short of perfection.

Marshall Field & Company

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

Floyd, Ray

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

John F. Kennedy

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Berry, Wendell

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Newton, Howard W.

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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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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 takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Hill, Napoleon

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There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Riley, Pat

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Keats, John

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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