Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Mansfield, Katherine

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

You must be resolutely determined that whatever you do shall always be the best of which you are capable.

Popplestone, Charles E.

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Aristotle

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

Berry, Wendell

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

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

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Schwartz, David J.

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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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No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.

Pollock, Channing

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Peterson, Wilferd 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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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Don't waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence -- doing your best.

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

Darwin, Francis

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

Wilde, Oscar