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

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Watson, Thomas J.

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art -- an individual masterpiece.

Waitley, Denis

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Robinson, James H.

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

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Young, Steve

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spectacular, don't show up in the morning paper.

Goodsell, Jane

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Wooden, John

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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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

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Keats, John

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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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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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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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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

28.

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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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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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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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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.

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Hill, Napoleon

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Mandino, Og

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Roddick, Anita

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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

42.

Don't waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence -- doing your best.

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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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

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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Let each day be your masterpiece.