Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Mead, Shepherd

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marden, Orison Swett

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Gracian, Baltasar

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Riley, Pat

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hurt, William

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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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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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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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

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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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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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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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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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

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It isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.

Malloch, Douglas

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

Keats, John

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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To do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way; to do some things better than they were ever done before; to eliminate errors; to know both sides of the question; to be courteous; to be an example; to work for the love of work; to anticipate requirements; to develop resources; to recognize no impediments; to master circumstances; to act from reason rather than rule; to be satisfied with nothing short of perfection.

Marshall Field & Company

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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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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The road to excellence is always under construction

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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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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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Berry, Wendell

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Carnegie, Andrew