Motivational Quotes

Excellence

With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Excellence

The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.

Powers, Melvin

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Riley, Pat

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Malloch, Douglas

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

Gardner, John W.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

10.

One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. There is a special sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in its parts, which the superficial person who leaves his or her work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition, can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns any work into art. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

Mandino, Og

11.

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

12.

The road to excellence is always under construction

13.

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

14.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Sallust

18.

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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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

20.

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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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

22.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

23.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

24.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Wooden, John

28.

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Shakespeare, William

29.

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

Hazlitt, William

30.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

31.

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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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Scott, Sir Walter

33.

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

34.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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.

40.

You always have to give 100 percent, because if you don't, someone, someplace, will give 100 percent and will beat you when you meet.

Macauley, Ed

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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

42.

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

Mandino, Og

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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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The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.

Gaberino, Geoffrey

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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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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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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