Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Scott, Sir Walter

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

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

Scott, Sir Walter

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can reach. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries and predecessors; try to be better than yourself.

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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 man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

16.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Berry, Wendell

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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

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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Wooden, John

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

Washington, Booker T.

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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

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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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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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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

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

Mandino, Og

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

Malloch, Douglas

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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.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark...

Marden, Orison Swett

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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 success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do...

Schwartz, David J.

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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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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

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

Mansfield, Katherine