Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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.

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Carlyle, Thomas

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

Sir Winston Churchill

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Shakespeare, 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

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

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

Sallust

10.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

11.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

12.

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

14.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

John F. Kennedy

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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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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Keats, John

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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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.

35.

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

Floyd, Ray

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

43.

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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The road to excellence is always under construction

45.

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

Wooden, John

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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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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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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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 sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander