Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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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Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thomas, Lowell

The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Sallust

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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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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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Wilde, Oscar

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You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spectacular, don't show up in the morning paper.

Goodsell, Jane

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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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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Mandino, Og

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Riley, Pat

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

Berry, Wendell

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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence