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

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Lincoln, Abraham

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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.

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

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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Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

Ogilvy, David

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Aristotle

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Riley, Pat

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Excellence is best described as doing the right things right -- selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Malloch, Douglas

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Sallust

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

Mandino, Og

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

Darwin, Francis

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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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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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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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It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

Sir Winston Churchill

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Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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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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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.

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

John F. Kennedy