Motivational Quotes

Excellence

We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Excellence

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Mcdonald, John

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

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

Robinson, James H.

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

Washington, Booker T.

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Wooden, John

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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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Wilde, Oscar

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There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish.

Lucado, Max L.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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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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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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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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Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.

Sands, Bill

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Mandino, Og

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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 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.