Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

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

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

Riley, Pat

I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

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

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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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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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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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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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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Hazlitt, William

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The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do -- they always reach.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Mandino, Og

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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