Motivational Quotes

Excellence

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

John F. Kennedy

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

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Young, Steve

There's a way to do better... find it.

Edison, Thomas A.

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

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

Gardner, John W.

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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 can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 must do the best we can with what we have.

Sill, Edward Rowland

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The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

Ford, Henry

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

Berry, Wendell

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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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 master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

Michener, James A.

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Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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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 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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Keats, John

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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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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.