Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

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

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Shakespeare, William

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

Gracian, Baltasar

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Pearl Buck

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

Sands, Bill

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

Newton, Howard W.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Aristotle

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

Berry, Wendell

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Thomas, Lowell

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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

Garfield, Charles A.

24.

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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 idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

Gardner, John W.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Keats, John

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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

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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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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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

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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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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The road to excellence is always under construction