Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

Lombardi, Vince

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

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

Sands, Bill

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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 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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The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do...

Schwartz, David J.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Thomas, Lowell

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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Young, Steve

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

Aristotle

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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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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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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

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

Newton, Howard W.

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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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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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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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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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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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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Riley, Pat

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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