Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hill, Napoleon

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Washington, Booker T.

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Keats, John

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

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

Gardner, John W.

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

Berry, Wendell

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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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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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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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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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

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Roddick, Anita

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

Wooden, John

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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