Motivational Quotes

Excellence

The road to excellence is always under construction

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Best Quotes about Excellence

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Watson, Thomas J.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Roddick, Anita

The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Schwartz, David J.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Riley, Pat

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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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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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Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

Gardner, John W.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.

Aristotle

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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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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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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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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It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Mcdonald, John

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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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There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

Trevino, Lee

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To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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