Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Floyd, Ray

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Riley, Pat

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

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

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

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

Hurt, William

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Mandino, Og

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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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

Aristotle

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Floyd, Ray

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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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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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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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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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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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Mcdonald, John

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Thomas, Lowell

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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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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.