Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Sir Winston Churchill

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

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

Riley, Pat

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

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Berry, Wendell

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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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Resolve to make each day the very best and don't let anyone get in your way. If they do, step on them.

Benson, Ivan

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

Gardner, John W.

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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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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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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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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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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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Don't waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence -- doing your best.

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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 road to excellence is always under construction

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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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 who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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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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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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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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Doing common things uncommonly well.