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

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

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

Mead, Shepherd

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

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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. There is a special sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in its parts, which the superficial person who leaves his or her work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition, can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns any work into art. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

Mandino, Og

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Malloch, Douglas

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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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Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

Ogilvy, David

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Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.

Sands, Bill

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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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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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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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Berry, Wendell

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Keats, John

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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Roddick, Anita

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

Aristotle