Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Floyd, Ray

Anybody who accepts mediocrity -- in school, on the job, in life -- is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.

Knight, Charles

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

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

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Robinson, James H.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Sallust

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People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Washington, Booker T.

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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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One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. There is a special sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in its parts, which the superficial person who leaves his or her work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition, can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns any work into art. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

Mandino, Og

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Berry, Wendell

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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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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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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Wooden, John

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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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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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.

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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Riley, Pat

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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 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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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Watson, Thomas J.