Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

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

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Malloch, Douglas

It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.

Aristotle

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The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

John F. Kennedy

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Riley, Pat

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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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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A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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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The road to excellence is always under construction

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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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Hill, Napoleon

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

Mill, John Stuart

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Sallust

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Floyd, Ray

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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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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