Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Let each day be your masterpiece.

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Best Quotes about Excellence

The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

Mead, Shepherd

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

Mcdonald, John

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

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Young, Steve

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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Washington, Booker T.

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Keats, John

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

Thomas, Lowell

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Aristotle

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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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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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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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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can reach. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries and predecessors; try to be better than yourself.

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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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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Pearl Buck

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If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Floyd, Ray

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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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

Sir Winston Churchill