Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Heifetz, Jascha

Best Quotes about Excellence

The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

Mcdonald, John

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

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

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

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

Mead, Shepherd

10.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

11.

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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

13.

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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The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

Gardner, John W.

15.

Let each day be your masterpiece.

16.

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

Wooden, John

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

18.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

19.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

20.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

21.

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

Malloch, Douglas

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Berry, Wendell

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

Floyd, Ray

27.

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

Sands, Bill

28.

Today, and every day, 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. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive. You deserve them!

Mandino, Og

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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.

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It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.

Aristotle

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Aristotle

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

Riley, Pat

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

Keats, John

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

John F. Kennedy

40.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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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