Motivational Quotes

Excellence

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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.

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.

Powers, Melvin

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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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Hill, Napoleon

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Sallust

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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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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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The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.

Gaberino, Geoffrey

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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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Malloch, Douglas

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Floyd, Ray

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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

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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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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

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Thomas, Lowell

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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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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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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

Robinson, James H.

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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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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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When you say you'll meet someone at 11:00 AM, be there at 10:45. When you promise a check on the 30th, send it on the 28th. Whatever you agree to do, do it a bit more. Start with your employees, then extend it to everyone you deal with. News will soon get around that you are a person of your word.

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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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.