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

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mcdonald, John

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Young, Steve

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hall-mark of excellence.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Wooden, John

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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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Anybody who accepts mediocrity -- in school, on the job, in life -- is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.

Knight, Charles

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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 road to excellence is always under construction

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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Excellence is best described as doing the right things right -- selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

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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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If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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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

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

Berry, Wendell

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There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

Mill, John Stuart

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

Mead, Shepherd

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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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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

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

Roddick, Anita