Motivational Quotes

Excellence

I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest. I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.

- Truman, Harry S

Best Quotes about Excellence

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 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

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.

I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest. I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.

Truman, Harry S

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

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.

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

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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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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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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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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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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It isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.

Malloch, Douglas

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

Mcdonald, John

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Wooden, John

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

Ford, Henry

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If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.

Floyd, Ray

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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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 enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.

Hemingway, Ernest

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The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do -- they always reach.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Da Vinci, Leonardo