Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Floyd, Ray

Best Quotes about Excellence

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Malloch, Douglas

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Mcdonald, John

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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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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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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Sallust

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

Berry, Wendell

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

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Keats, John

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To do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way; to do some things better than they were ever done before; to eliminate errors; to know both sides of the question; to be courteous; to be an example; to work for the love of work; to anticipate requirements; to develop resources; to recognize no impediments; to master circumstances; to act from reason rather than rule; to be satisfied with nothing short of perfection.

Marshall Field & Company

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Wooden, John

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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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People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it.

Newton, Howard W.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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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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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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Anybody who accepts mediocrity -- in school, on the job, in life -- is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.

Knight, Charles

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Floyd, Ray

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

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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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Excellence is best described as doing the right things right -- selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

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Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Schwartz, David J.