Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steer is the way to it.

Hesiod

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

You must be resolutely determined that whatever you do shall always be the best of which you are capable.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

Berry, Wendell

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Thomas, Lowell

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To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

Mcdonald, John

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

Riley, Pat

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Roddick, Anita

21.

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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

John F. Kennedy

28.

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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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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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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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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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Wooden, John

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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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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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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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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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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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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

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

Hazlitt, William

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