Motivational Quotes

Excellence

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

- Blanchard, Ken

Best Quotes about Excellence

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 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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Aristotle

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.

Sands, Bill

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

Malloch, Douglas

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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.

Mandino, Og

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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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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 real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.

Gaberino, Geoffrey

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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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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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Wooden, John

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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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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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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Floyd, Ray

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Riley, Pat

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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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Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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.

35.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Gardner, John W.

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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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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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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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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

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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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

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