Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Hurt, William

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

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

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

Roddick, Anita

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

Thomas, Lowell

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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 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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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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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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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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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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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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It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Floyd, Ray

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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

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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

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Berry, Wendell

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

Keats, John

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