Quotes about excellence

"The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous."

Alexander, Shana on excellence
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"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."

Aristotle on excellence
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"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

Aristotle on excellence
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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 on excellence
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"Whatever you do, don't do it halfway."

Beamon, Bob on excellence   

"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 on excellence   

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

Berry, Wendell on excellence   

"People who produce good results feel good about themselves."

Blanchard, Ken on excellence
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"All you owe the public is a good performance."

Bogart, Humphrey on excellence   

"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 on excellence   

"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 on excellence
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"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars."

Brown, Les on excellence
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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 on excellence
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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 on excellence   

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

Carlyle, Thomas on excellence
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"Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best."

Carnegie, Andrew on excellence
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"I can do small things in a great way."

Clarke, James Freeman on excellence   

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo on excellence
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"There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed."

Darwin, Francis on excellence   

"It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us."

Disraeli, Isaac on excellence   

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"I start where the last man left off."

Edison, Thomas A. on excellence   

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

Edison, Thomas A. on excellence
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"Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world."

Eliot, George on excellence
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"There is always a best way of doing everything."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on excellence   

"He who has put a good finish to his undertaking is said to have placed a golden crown to the whole."

Eustachius on excellence   

"You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else."

Feinstein, Dianne on excellence   

"Good enough never is."

Field, Debbi on excellence   

"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 on excellence   

"You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself."

Firestone, Harvey S. on excellence
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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 on excellence   

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

Floyd, Ray on excellence   

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

Gardner, John W. on excellence   

"Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."

Gardner, John W. on excellence
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"The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life."

Gardner, John W. on excellence   

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

Garfield, Charles A. on excellence   

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y on excellence
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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 on excellence