Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Gardner, John W.

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

Ogilvy, David

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Woolf, Virginia

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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 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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can reach. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries and predecessors; try to be better than yourself.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Riley, Pat

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

Wooden, John

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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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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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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

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

John F. Kennedy

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Thomas, Lowell

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Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hall-mark of excellence.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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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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No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.

Pollock, Channing

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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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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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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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There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

Trevino, Lee

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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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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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Mandino, Og