Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Excellence

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

Let each day be your masterpiece.

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.

One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

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

Berry, Wendell

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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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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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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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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Riley, Pat

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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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The road to excellence is always under construction

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Mandino, Og

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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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No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.

Pollock, Channing

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

Brown, Les

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You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Feinstein, Dianne

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

Lombardi, Vince

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Newton, Howard W.

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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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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.