Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Feinstein, Dianne

Best Quotes about Excellence

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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.

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

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

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

Gardner, John W.

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Roddick, Anita

Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art -- an individual masterpiece.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.

Aristotle

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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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The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.

Powers, Melvin

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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

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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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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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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Aristotle

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Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

Thomas, Lowell

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

32.

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

Berry, Wendell

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

Marden, Orison Swett

35.

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Mcdonald, John

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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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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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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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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 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

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Mead, Shepherd

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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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