Motivational Quotes

Excellence

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

- Simmons, Charles

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Feinstein, Dianne

Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.

Marden, Orison Swett

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steer is the way to it.

Hesiod

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

O'Connor, Flannery

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Thomas, Lowell

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Wooden, John

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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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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

John F. Kennedy

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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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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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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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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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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Hill, Napoleon

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The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Waitley, Denis

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It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Hill, Napoleon

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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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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It is only in your mind that you have to excel, at anything or everything. Of course, it would be very nice to excel at most things. Indeed, we recommend that you try and do your best. But realistically, you are entitled to do the bare minimum to get by. All your accomplishments are just a bonus, something to enjoy, not requirements. You don't have to do anything to prove that you are worthy of existing.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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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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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Pearl Buck

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.