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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Mansfield, Katherine

You must be resolutely determined that whatever you do shall always be the best of which you are capable.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

10.

We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

Joubert, Joseph

11.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Feinstein, Dianne

12.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

15.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

16.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

17.

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Roddick, Anita

18.

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

19.

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

Thomas, Lowell

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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

22.

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

Mandino, Og

23.

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

24.

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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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

28.

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

Marden, Orison Swett

29.

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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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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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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If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator rather than catering to it.

Fischer, Edward

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

38.

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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Keats, John

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

Riley, Pat

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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 a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish.

Lucado, Max L.

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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

48.

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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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