Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Good enough never is.

- Field, Debbi

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Riley, Pat

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Keats, John

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

Thomas, Lowell

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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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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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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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Wooden, John

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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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Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

Robinson, James H.

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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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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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Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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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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If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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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

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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Floyd, Ray

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

John F. Kennedy