Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

Mcdonald, John

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

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

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

Keats, John

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

Aristotle

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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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

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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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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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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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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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Washington, Booker T.

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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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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

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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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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 but common men more fully developed and ripened.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Malloch, Douglas

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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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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