Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Carnegie, Andrew

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

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

Waitley, Denis

Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that little more which is worth all the rest.

Briggs, Dean

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

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

Floyd, Ray

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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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

Ogilvy, David

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert 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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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 can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Keats, John

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Berry, Wendell

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Wooden, John

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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...