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

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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.

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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

Mead, Shepherd

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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

Keats, John

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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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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Robinson, James H.

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People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it.

Newton, Howard W.

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Mandino, Og

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One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. There is a special sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in its parts, which the superficial person who leaves his or her work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition, can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns any work into art. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

Mandino, Og

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

Wooden, John

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

Riley, Pat

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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.