Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Excellence

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

Gardner, John W.

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

Wooden, John

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Trevino, Lee

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Riley, Pat

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

10.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

13.

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

14.

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

Berry, Wendell

15.

I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away.

Fields, Debbie

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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

17.

The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.

Powers, Melvin

18.

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

Hazlitt, William

19.

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.

Mandino, Og

20.

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

Floyd, Ray

21.

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

Mandino, Og

22.

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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Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

Gardner, John W.

24.

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

25.

I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Scott, Sir Walter

30.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

31.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

33.

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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Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art -- an individual masterpiece.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.