Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Excellence

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Floyd, Ray

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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

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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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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Mandino, Og

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

Michener, James A.

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

Washington, Booker T.

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.