Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Lincoln, Abraham

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

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

Wooden, John

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Carlyle, Thomas

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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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Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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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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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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 sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

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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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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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Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable.

Mandino, Og

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Berry, Wendell

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

Mandino, Og

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With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

Aristotle

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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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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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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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Today, and every day, deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive. You deserve them!

Mandino, Og

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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.

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Pearl Buck

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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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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