Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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.

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.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Mead, Shepherd

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

11.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Riley, Pat

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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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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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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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You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Feinstein, Dianne

18.

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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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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

21.

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Keats, John

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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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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

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

47.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Malloch, Douglas

49.

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

Berry, Wendell

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I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away.

Fields, Debbie