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

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

Young, Steve

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

Sallust

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

Mead, Shepherd

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Aristotle

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Berry, Wendell

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

Roddick, Anita

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Floyd, Ray

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

John F. Kennedy

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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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The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do -- they always reach.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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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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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

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One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

Brown, Les

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Riley, Pat

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It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence