Motivational Quotes

Excellence

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

- Berry, Wendell

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

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

Mandino, Og

If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

Mead, Shepherd

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.

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

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Waitley, Denis

No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.

Pollock, Channing

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

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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There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

Mill, John Stuart

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

John F. Kennedy

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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

Berry, Wendell

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One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

Brown, Les

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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

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Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.

Vickery, A. Lou

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Keats, John

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Don't waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence -- doing your best.

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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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 sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Floyd, Ray