Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Feinstein, Dianne

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

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Powers, Melvin

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

Aristotle

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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The road to excellence is always under construction

15.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Wooden, John

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

28.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that little more which is worth all the rest.

Briggs, Dean

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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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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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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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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steer is the way to it.

Hesiod

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey