Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Excellence

I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

O'Connor, Flannery

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

John F. Kennedy

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

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.

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

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

Mandino, Og

When you say you'll meet someone at 11:00 AM, be there at 10:45. When you promise a check on the 30th, send it on the 28th. Whatever you agree to do, do it a bit more. Start with your employees, then extend it to everyone you deal with. News will soon get around that you are a person of your word.

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Young, Steve

10.

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

Berry, Wendell

11.

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

Ford, Henry

12.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

13.

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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The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.

Gaberino, Geoffrey

15.

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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

17.

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

Hurt, William

18.

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

Riley, Pat

19.

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

20.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

21.

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

22.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

24.

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

25.

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

Hazlitt, William

26.

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

27.

Let each day be your masterpiece.

28.

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

Wooden, John

29.

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

30.

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Washington, Booker T.

32.

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

Thomas, Lowell

40.

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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You must be resolutely determined that whatever you do shall always be the best of which you are capable.

Popplestone, Charles E.

43.

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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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

45.

I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

46.

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.