Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.

Powers, Melvin

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

11.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

13.

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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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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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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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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

19.

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

Mandino, Og

20.

I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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

Aristotle

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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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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

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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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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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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

34.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

John F. Kennedy

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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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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 what you do, but how you do it.

Wooden, John

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

Riley, Pat

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Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.

Sands, Bill

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

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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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Resolve to make each day the very best and don't let anyone get in your way. If they do, step on them.

Benson, Ivan

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

Berry, Wendell