Motivational Quotes

Excellence

If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

- Mead, Shepherd

Best Quotes about Excellence

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

Mead, Shepherd

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.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Gardner, John W.

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.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Hurt, William

If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator rather than catering to it.

Fischer, Edward

10.

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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You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spectacular, don't show up in the morning paper.

Goodsell, Jane

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

Sallust

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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 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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Edison, Thomas A.

21.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Carnegie, Andrew

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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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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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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To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Aristotle

30.

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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We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Riley, Pat

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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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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Today, and every day, 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. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive. You deserve them!

Mandino, Og

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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

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

Berry, Wendell

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