Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Aristotle

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Mandino, Og

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

Sallust

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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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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Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Roddick, Anita

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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

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Wooden, 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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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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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.

Mandino, Og

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Anybody who accepts mediocrity -- in school, on the job, in life -- is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.

Knight, Charles

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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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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

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

Mcdonald, John

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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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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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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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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