Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Sallust

Best Quotes about Excellence

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Riley, Pat

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

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

Keats, John

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

Gardner, John W.

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

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Wooden, John

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

10.

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

11.

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Scott, Sir Walter

12.

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

13.

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

Robinson, James H.

14.

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

Malloch, Douglas

15.

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

16.

It is only in your mind that you have to excel, at anything or everything. Of course, it would be very nice to excel at most things. Indeed, we recommend that you try and do your best. But realistically, you are entitled to do the bare minimum to get by. All your accomplishments are just a bonus, something to enjoy, not requirements. You don't have to do anything to prove that you are worthy of existing.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

17.

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

18.

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

Mandino, Og

19.

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

20.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

21.

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

22.

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

23.

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

24.

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

Sallust

27.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Mcdonald, John

34.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

35.

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

36.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

37.

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

Trevino, Lee

38.

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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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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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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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The road to excellence is always under construction

45.

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

Roddick, Anita

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We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

48.

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

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

Powers, Melvin