Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Newton, Howard W.

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Washington, Booker T.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

It isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.

Malloch, Douglas

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

Mandino, Og

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Roddick, Anita

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Wooden, John

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Thomas, Lowell

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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.

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Keats, John

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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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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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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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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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