Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Malloch, Douglas

Best Quotes about Excellence

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

Hurt, William

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

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Gardner, John W.

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

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

Washington, Booker T.

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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 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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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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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Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Mandino, Og

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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

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Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Mcdonald, John

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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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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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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Wooden, John

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