Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Mead, Shepherd

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

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

I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Aristotle

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Floyd, Ray

10.

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

Gardner, John W.

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

13.

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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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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Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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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

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Berry, Wendell

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When you say you'll meet someone at 11:00 AM, be there at 10:45. When you promise a check on the 30th, send it on the 28th. Whatever you agree to do, do it a bit more. Start with your employees, then extend it to everyone you deal with. News will soon get around that you are a person of your word.

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Roddick, Anita

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

Wilde, Oscar

29.

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

Mcdonald, John

30.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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 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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

Getty, J. Paul

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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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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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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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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

46.

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

Wooden, John

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