Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Trevino, Lee

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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.

You always have to give 100 percent, because if you don't, someone, someplace, will give 100 percent and will beat you when you meet.

Macauley, Ed

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

Marden, Orison Swett

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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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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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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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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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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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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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can reach. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries and predecessors; try to be better than yourself.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Berry, Wendell

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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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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Riley, Pat

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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

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Wooden, John

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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