Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

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

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

Riley, Pat

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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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Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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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 secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Pearl Buck

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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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.

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Keats, John

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Berry, Wendell

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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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The road to excellence is always under construction

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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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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

39.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

John F. Kennedy

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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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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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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