Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Young, Steve

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

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

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Aristotle

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Owens, Jesse

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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When you say you'll meet someone at 11:00 AM, be there at 10:45. When you promise a check on the 30th, send it on the 28th. Whatever you agree to do, do it a bit more. Start with your employees, then extend it to everyone you deal with. News will soon get around that you are a person of your word.

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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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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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Robinson, James H.

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

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

Washington, Booker T.

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 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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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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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.