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

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Riley, Pat

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

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Scott, Sir Walter

There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish.

Lucado, Max L.

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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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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One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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.

Marden, Orison Swett

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It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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.

Kingsley, Charles

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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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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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The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.

Powers, Melvin

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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

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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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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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

28.

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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Hill, Napoleon

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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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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

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Feinstein, Dianne

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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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 success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do...

Schwartz, David J.

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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

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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Hill, Napoleon

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard