Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Thomas, Lowell

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

Roddick, Anita

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

Schwartz, David J.

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

Keats, John

No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.

Pollock, Channing

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Aristotle

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

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Floyd, Ray

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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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There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Berry, Wendell

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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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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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It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Washington, Booker T.

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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

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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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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Thomas, Lowell

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Riley, Pat