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

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the best in your chosen field, whatever it is.

Mitchell, Don G.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Aristotle

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Aristotle

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The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

Gardner, John W.

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

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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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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To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Thomas, Lowell

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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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It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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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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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 what you do, but how you do it.

Wooden, John

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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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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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