Motivational Quotes

Excellence

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

- Simmons, Charles

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

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

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Wooden, John

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Washington, Booker T.

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There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority...

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

Mcdonald, John

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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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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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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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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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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We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Mandino, Og

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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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We must do the best we can with what we have.

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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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The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

Keats, John

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

Gardner, John W.

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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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With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

Aristotle

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

Roddick, Anita

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

Sands, Bill

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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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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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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles