Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Mandino, Og

Best Quotes about Excellence

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Marden, Orison Swett

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

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

Mcdonald, John

You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.

Garcia, Jerry

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

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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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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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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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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 by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.

Malloch, Douglas

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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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I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away.

Fields, Debbie

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

Marden, Orison Swett

21.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Floyd, Ray

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Excellence is best described as doing the right things right -- selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

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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.

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Hurt, William

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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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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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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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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 takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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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 no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

Trevino, Lee

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Mandino, Og

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There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Washington, Booker T.

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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Aristotle