Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Pearl Buck

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.

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

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

Aristotle

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

Roddick, Anita

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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

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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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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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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 isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.

Malloch, Douglas

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

Heifetz, Jascha

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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

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

Hazlitt, William

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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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.

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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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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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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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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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

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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

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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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Anybody who accepts mediocrity -- in school, on the job, in life -- is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.

Knight, Charles

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Sands, Bill

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I can do small things in a great way.