Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Olivier, Sir Lawrence

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Sallust

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

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

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

Berry, Wendell

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

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Floyd, Ray

10.

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

Wooden, John

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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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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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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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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

17.

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

Wilde, Oscar

18.

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

19.

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

20.

I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Gardner, John W.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

27.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

28.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

29.

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

30.

You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.

Garcia, Jerry

31.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Thomas, Lowell

42.

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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

44.

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

45.

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

Mandino, Og

46.

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

Mcdonald, John

47.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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The road to excellence is always under construction