Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

- Rorty, Richard

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Wooden, John

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Feinstein, Dianne

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

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.

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

Robinson, James H.

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

10.

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Floyd, Ray

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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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I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Lincoln, Abraham

31.

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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

33.

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Hazlitt, William

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Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hall-mark of excellence.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do -- they always reach.

Iacocca, Lee

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Mandino, Og

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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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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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