Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Roddick, Anita

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Hill, Napoleon

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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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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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

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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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People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Owens, Jesse

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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 who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

John F. Kennedy

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Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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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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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Keats, John

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the best in your chosen field, whatever it is.

Mitchell, Don G.

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I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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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 doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

Bruyere, Jean De La