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

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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Roddick, Anita

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

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

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Aristotle

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

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.

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

Thomas, Lowell

10.

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

11.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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When you say you'll meet someone at 11:00 AM, be there at 10:45. When you promise a check on the 30th, send it on the 28th. Whatever you agree to do, do it a bit more. Start with your employees, then extend it to everyone you deal with. News will soon get around that you are a person of your word.

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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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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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Kingsley, Charles

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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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

20.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Wooden, John

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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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There's a way to do better... find it.

Edison, Thomas A.

26.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

28.

I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

32.

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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The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

Michener, James A.

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Waitley, Denis

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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 noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.