Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do...

Schwartz, David J.

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

Hurt, William

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

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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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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Wooden, John

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

Mcdonald, John

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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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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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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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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

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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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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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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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

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

Keats, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

Benson, Ivan

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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 has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Floyd, Ray

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One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Hazlitt, William

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

Thomas, Lowell

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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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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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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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