Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Excellence

There's a way to do better... find it.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Malloch, Douglas

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

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

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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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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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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Mandino, Og

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People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Owens, Jesse

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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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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

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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 want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

Ford, Henry

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

Trevino, Lee

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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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

27.

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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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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The road to excellence is always under construction

30.

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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The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do -- they always reach.

Iacocca, Lee

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Hill, Napoleon

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Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Shakespeare, William

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Roddick, Anita

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

Thomas, Lowell

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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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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

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

Wooden, John

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

Berry, Wendell

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Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

Gardner, John W.