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

Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.

Sands, Bill

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Wilde, Oscar

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Roddick, Anita

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.

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.

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

Newton, Howard W.

I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Young, Steve

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Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art -- an individual masterpiece.

Waitley, Denis

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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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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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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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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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

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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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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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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.

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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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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 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

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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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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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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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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

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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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Keats, John

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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.

Tracy, Brian

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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Floyd, Ray

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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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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You always have to give 100 percent, because if you don't, someone, someplace, will give 100 percent and will beat you when you meet.

Macauley, Ed

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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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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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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