Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

- Gardner, John W.

Best Quotes about Excellence

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

Mead, Shepherd

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

I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Hill, Napoleon

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.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art -- an individual masterpiece.

Waitley, Denis

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Newton, Howard W.

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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It isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.

Malloch, Douglas

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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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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

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There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away.

Fields, Debbie

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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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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The road to excellence is always under construction

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Carlyle, Thomas