Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

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

Aristotle

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

Thomas, Lowell

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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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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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

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

Berry, Wendell

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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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The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do -- they always reach.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

Darwin, Francis

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

Sands, Bill

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

Mcdonald, John

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From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Malloch, Douglas

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