Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Feinstein, Dianne

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

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Aristotle

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

Mcdonald, John

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

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

Today, and every day, deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive. You deserve them!

Mandino, Og

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Sallust

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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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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Mandino, Og

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Aristotle

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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Thomas, Lowell

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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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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

O'Connor, Flannery

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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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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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.

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

Berry, Wendell

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Riley, Pat

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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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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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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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 by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.

Malloch, Douglas

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

Washington, Booker T.

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.