Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.

- Sands, Bill

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Keats, John

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Aristotle

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You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Feinstein, Dianne

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

Powers, Melvin

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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 never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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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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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 have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Sallust

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

Wilde, Oscar

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Gardner, John W.

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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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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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 quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do -- they always reach.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Mansfield, Katherine