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

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Doing common things uncommonly well.

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

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 uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.

Powers, Melvin

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Waitley, Denis

10.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

11.

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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

13.

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.

14.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

16.

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

Sands, Bill

18.

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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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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

21.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

27.

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Roddick, Anita

29.

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.

30.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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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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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 is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Wooden, John

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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Sir Winston Churchill

44.

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

Goldsmith, Oliver

45.

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

Hazlitt, William

46.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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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