Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Floyd, Ray

Best Quotes about Excellence

Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.

Sands, Bill

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

We must do the best we can with what we have.

Sill, Edward Rowland

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

19.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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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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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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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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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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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Keats, John

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Lincoln, Abraham