Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Wooden, John

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

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 principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Young, Steve

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Gracian, Baltasar

11.

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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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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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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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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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 no finish line.

Nike Corporation

18.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mandino, Og

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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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I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Keats, John

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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 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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Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Robinson, James H.

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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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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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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.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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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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If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Roddick, Anita

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

Mcdonald, John

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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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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Pearl Buck

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

Riley, Pat

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

Marden, Orison Swett

48.

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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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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Resolve to make each day the very best and don't let anyone get in your way. If they do, step on them.