Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the best in your chosen field, whatever it is.

Mitchell, Don G.

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

Riley, Pat

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

Heifetz, Jascha

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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 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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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Washington, Booker T.

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

John F. Kennedy

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Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that little more which is worth all the rest.

Briggs, Dean

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

Gardner, John W.

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

Roddick, Anita

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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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

Aristotle

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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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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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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

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

Newton, Howard W.

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To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

Mcdonald, John

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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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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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It isn't what you do, but how you do it.

Wooden, John

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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