Motivational Quotes

Excellence

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

- Feinstein, Dianne

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Shakespeare, William

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

Wilde, Oscar

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

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

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

10.

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

11.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Feinstein, Dianne

12.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

13.

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

14.

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

Trevino, Lee

15.

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

16.

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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Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

Marden, Orison Swett

18.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

19.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

20.

If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

Mead, Shepherd

21.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

22.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Wooden, John

24.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

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

Mandino, Og

26.

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

27.

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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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

29.

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

Powers, Melvin

30.

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

31.

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

32.

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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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Berry, Wendell

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

Washington, Booker T.

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Marden, Orison Swett

40.

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

Hazlitt, William

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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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 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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People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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