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

Let each day be your masterpiece.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Carnegie, Andrew

Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

Ford, Henry

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Mcdonald, John

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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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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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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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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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Mead, Shepherd

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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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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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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Riley, Pat

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Pearl Buck

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