Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Da Vinci, Leonardo

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Wilde, Oscar

The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do...

Schwartz, David J.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

It is only in your mind that you have to excel, at anything or everything. Of course, it would be very nice to excel at most things. Indeed, we recommend that you try and do your best. But realistically, you are entitled to do the bare minimum to get by. All your accomplishments are just a bonus, something to enjoy, not requirements. You don't have to do anything to prove that you are worthy of existing.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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

Berry, Wendell

Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.

Vickery, A. Lou

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

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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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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 sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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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Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Mandino, Og

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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Wooden, John

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

Floyd, Ray

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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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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If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Watson, Thomas 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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We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

Joubert, Joseph

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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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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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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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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