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

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Let each day be your masterpiece.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

Keats, John

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Mandino, Og

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.

Joubert, Joseph

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

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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.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

17.

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Lombardi, Vince

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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

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest. I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.

Truman, Harry S

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People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Floyd, Ray

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To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

Mcdonald, John

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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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Robinson, James H.

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

Hurt, William