Motivational Quotes

Excellence

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

- Blanchard, Ken

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

Heifetz, Jascha

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Feinstein, Dianne

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

Gracian, Baltasar

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Mcdonald, John

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A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Washington, Booker T.

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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.

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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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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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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 never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 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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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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

22.

There's a way to do better... find it.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Berry, Wendell

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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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The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

Gardner, John W.

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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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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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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.

Garcia, Jerry

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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Don't waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence -- doing your best.

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Wooden, John

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

Sands, Bill

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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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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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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 is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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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.