Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Peterson, Wilferd A.

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

Thomas, Lowell

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

Watson, Thomas J.

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.

Sands, Bill

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

One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

Brown, Les

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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Trevino, Lee

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

16.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

23.

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

Berry, Wendell

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Malloch, Douglas

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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Young, Steve

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Roddick, Anita

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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

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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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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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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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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.

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

Schwartz, David J.

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Mcdonald, John

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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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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.