Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Watson, Thomas J.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Keats, John

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

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

Mead, Shepherd

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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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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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

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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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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Mcdonald, John

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Mandino, Og

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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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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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

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.