Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Garfield, Charles A.

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Malloch, Douglas

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

Trevino, Lee

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Hill, Napoleon

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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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 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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Thomas, Lowell

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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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There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish.

Lucado, Max L.

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

Newton, Howard W.

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I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest. I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.

Truman, Harry S

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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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Floyd, Ray

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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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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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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Mcdonald, John

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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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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 noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Mandino, Og

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

Berry, Wendell

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Keats, John

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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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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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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Wooden, John

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

Edison, Thomas A.