Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Young, Steve

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Shakespeare, William

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

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

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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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

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Wooden, John

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hill, Napoleon

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Riley, Pat

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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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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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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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Berry, Wendell

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Keats, John

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Mandino, Og

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von