Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Sill, Edward Rowland

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Hurt, William

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

Schwartz, David J.

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

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

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

Aristotle

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

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.

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

Sallust

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that little more which is worth all the rest.

Briggs, Dean

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Berry, Wendell

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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

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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Mead, Shepherd

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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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

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Mandino, Og

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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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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 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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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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest. I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.

Truman, Harry S

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

Mcdonald, John

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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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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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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It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Malloch, Douglas

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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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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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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.