Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Wooden, John

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Berry, Wendell

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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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If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

Mead, Shepherd

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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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Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Malloch, Douglas

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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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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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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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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Today, and every day, 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. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive. You deserve them!

Mandino, Og

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There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority...

Marden, Orison Swett

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Thomas, Lowell

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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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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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We must do the best we can with what we have.

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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