Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hall-mark of excellence.

Marden, Orison Swett

You must be resolutely determined that whatever you do shall always be the best of which you are capable.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

Getty, J. Paul

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

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

Peters, 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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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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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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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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

17.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

19.

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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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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The road to excellence is always under construction

22.

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

John F. Kennedy

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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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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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Young, Steve

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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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If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Thomas, Lowell

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It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Riley, Pat

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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

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.

47.

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

Aristotle

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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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Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steer is the way to it.

Hesiod

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

Berry, Wendell