Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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.

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Best Quotes about Excellence

I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Scott, Sir Walter

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Schwartz, David J.

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

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

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

Young, Steve

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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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Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

Ogilvy, David

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wooden, John

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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

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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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

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable.

Mandino, Og

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Mandino, Og

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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

Trevino, Lee

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It is only in your mind that you have to excel, at anything or everything. Of course, it would be very nice to excel at most things. Indeed, we recommend that you try and do your best. But realistically, you are entitled to do the bare minimum to get by. All your accomplishments are just a bonus, something to enjoy, not requirements. You don't have to do anything to prove that you are worthy of existing.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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

Berry, Wendell

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With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

Aristotle

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.

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

Malloch, Douglas

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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Sallust