Motivational Quotes

Excellence

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

- Blanchard, Ken

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Feinstein, Dianne

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

Berry, Wendell

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

The road to excellence is always under construction

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

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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One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. There is a special sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in its parts, which the superficial person who leaves his or her work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition, can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns any work into art. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

Mandino, Og

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Trevino, Lee

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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

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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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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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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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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Keats, John

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