Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

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

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

Hurt, William

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

Aristotle

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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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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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Berry, Wendell

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

Mandino, Og

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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Today, and every day, 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. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive. You deserve them!

Mandino, Og

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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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Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Washington, Booker T.

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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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

Ogilvy, David

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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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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