Quotes about excellence

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

Sill, Edward Rowland on excellence   

"True greatness consists in being great in little things."

Simmons, Charles on excellence
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"To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization."

Stowe, Harriet Beecher on excellence   

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

Thomas, Lowell on 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 on excellence   

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

Trevino, Lee on 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 on excellence   

"Excellence is best described as doing the right things right -- selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly."

Unknown, Source on excellence   

"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."

Unknown, Source on excellence   

"Let each day be your masterpiece."

Unknown, Source on excellence   

"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence."

Unknown, Source on excellence   

"The road to excellence is always under construction"

Unknown, Source on excellence   

"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 on excellence   

"The best is the enemy of the good."

Voltaire on excellence
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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 on excellence
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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 on excellence   

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

Washington, Booker T. on excellence
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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. on excellence   

"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work."

Watson, Thomas J. on excellence
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"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."

Wilde, Oscar on excellence
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"Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on excellence   

"I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism and sexism."

Winfrey, Oprah on excellence   

"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."

Winfrey, Oprah on excellence
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"It isn't what you do, but how you do it."

Wooden, John on excellence
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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 on excellence   

"The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before."

Young, Steve on excellence
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"“Doing what is expected is boring. Go beyond mediocre and aim toward excellence!”"

Vanderlinden, Natasha on excellence