Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

- Gardner, John W.

Best Quotes about Excellence

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Young, Steve

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

Sands, Bill

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

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

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Floyd, Ray

10.

There's a way to do better... find it.

Edison, Thomas A.

11.

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

Hurt, William

12.

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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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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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Garfield, Charles A.

22.

Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

Robinson, James H.

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

Malloch, Douglas

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

28.

No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.

Pollock, Channing

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

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

Sallust

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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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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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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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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Hill, Napoleon

46.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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It isn't what you do, but how you do it.

Wooden, John

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

Mansfield, Katherine