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

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

A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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

Malloch, Douglas

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Riley, Pat

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Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do...

Schwartz, David J.

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

Wooden, John

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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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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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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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 quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Roddick, Anita

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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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The road to excellence is always under construction

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Thomas, Lowell

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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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Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that little more which is worth all the rest.

Briggs, Dean

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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