Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

- Beamon, Bob

Best Quotes about Excellence

Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

Robinson, James H.

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

John F. Kennedy

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

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

O'Connor, Flannery

You always have to give 100 percent, because if you don't, someone, someplace, will give 100 percent and will beat you when you meet.

Macauley, Ed

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Roddick, Anita

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away.

Fields, Debbie

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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Washington, Booker T.

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Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that little more which is worth all the rest.

Briggs, Dean

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

Mcdonald, John

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Keats, John

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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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Anybody who accepts mediocrity -- in school, on the job, in life -- is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.

Knight, Charles

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

Aristotle

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Thomas, Lowell

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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 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

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

Michener, James A.

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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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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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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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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 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