Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Riley, Pat

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

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

Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Resolve to make each day the very best and don't let anyone get in your way. If they do, step on them.

Benson, Ivan

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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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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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 do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Roddick, Anita

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

Wooden, John

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

Keats, John

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Sallust

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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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The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do...

Schwartz, David J.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Mcdonald, John

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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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