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

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

Gardner, John W.

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

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

Mandino, Og

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Malloch, Douglas

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

Hurt, William

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Roddick, Anita

24.

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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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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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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If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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To do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way; to do some things better than they were ever done before; to eliminate errors; to know both sides of the question; to be courteous; to be an example; to work for the love of work; to anticipate requirements; to develop resources; to recognize no impediments; to master circumstances; to act from reason rather than rule; to be satisfied with nothing short of perfection.

Marshall Field & Company

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.

Floyd, Ray

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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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