Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Sir Winston Churchill

You must be resolutely determined that whatever you do shall always be the best of which you are capable.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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.

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

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Sands, Bill

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

Carnegie, Andrew

The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.

Powers, Melvin

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

Mandino, Og

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Keats, John

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

Aristotle

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Floyd, Ray

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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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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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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Peterson, Wilferd 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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.