Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Aristotle

The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

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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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Scott, Sir Walter

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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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 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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Keats, John

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No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.

Pollock, Channing

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Shakespeare, William

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

Hazlitt, William

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The road to excellence is always under construction

25.

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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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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One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

Brown, Les

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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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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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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

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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Mandino, Og

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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You always have to give 100 percent, because if you don't, someone, someplace, will give 100 percent and will beat you when you meet.

Macauley, Ed

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

Robinson, James H.

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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.