EXCELLENCE

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(549 votes)  If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King Jr.
1929-1968, American Black Leader, Nobel Prize Winner, 1964

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(495 votes)  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
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(467 votes)  Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(429 votes)  Doing common things uncommonly well.

Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine

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(383 votes)  Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.

Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine

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(377 votes)  Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine

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(368 votes)  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.

Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine

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(365 votes)  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.

Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine

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(364 votes)  The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine

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

Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine

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(351 votes)  The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Lyndon B. Johnson
1908-1973, Thirty-sixth President of the USA

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

Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine

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(262 votes)  It isn't what you do, but how you do it.

John Wooden
1910-, American Basketball Coach

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(259 votes)  The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander
1925-, American Writer, Editor

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(211 votes)  I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism and sexism.

Oprah Winfrey
1954-, American TV Personality, Producer, Actress, Author

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(204 votes)  My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

Oprah Winfrey
1954-, American TV Personality, Producer, Actress, Author

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(187 votes)  We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist

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(186 votes)  The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

John Keats
1795-1821, British Poet

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(164 votes)  Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Charles Kingsley
1819-1875, British Author, Clergyman

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(148 votes)  Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.

Les Brown
1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer

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(146 votes)  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.

Jose Ortega y Gasset
1883-1955, Spanish Essayist, Philosopher

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(140 votes)  All you owe the public is a good performance.

Humphrey Bogart
1899-1957, American Film Actor

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(139 votes)  The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

Og Mandino
1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker

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(138 votes)  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
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(134 votes)  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!

Og Mandino
1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker

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(133 votes)  Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Og Mandino
1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker

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(132 votes)  When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(130 votes)  Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Andrew Carnegie
1835-1919, American Industrialist, Philanthropist

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(130 votes)  Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.

Wilferd A. Peterson

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

Baltasar Gracian
1601-1658, Spanish Philosopher, Writer

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(126 votes)  Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Booker T. Washington
1856-1915, American Black Leader and Educator

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(125 votes)  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.

Jean De La BruyFre
1645-1696, French Classical Writer

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(125 votes)  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.

Brian Tracy
American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman

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(124 votes)  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.

Thomas J. Watson
18?-1956, American Businessman, Founder of IBM

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

Thomas J. Watson
18?-1956, American Businessman, Founder of IBM

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(123 votes)  Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset
1883-1955, Spanish Essayist, Philosopher

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(122 votes)  Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(122 votes)  Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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

Sir Walter Scott
1771-1832, British Novelist, Poet

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

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(116 votes)  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.

John W. Gardner
1912-, American Educator, Social Activist

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(115 votes)  Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Pat Riley
1945, American Basketball Coach

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(114 votes)  All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.

Charles M. Schwab
1862-1939, American Industrialist, Businessman

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(114 votes)  To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
1811-1896, American Novelist, Antislavery Campaigner

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(113 votes)  If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

Vince Lombardi
1913-1970, American Football Coach

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(113 votes)  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.

Og Mandino
1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker

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

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(112 votes)  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.

Jesse Owens
1913-1980, American Olympic Track Athlete

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(111 votes)  When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

Sir John Lubbock
1834-1913, British Statesman, Banker, Naturalist

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(111 votes)  The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do...

David J. Schwartz
American Trainer, Author of ''The Magic of Thinking Big''

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