Motivational Quotes

Excellence

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

Let each day be your masterpiece.

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Shakespeare, William

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

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.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

11.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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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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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

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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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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

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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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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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Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

Ogilvy, David

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

Keats, John

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I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest. I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.

Truman, Harry S

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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 master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

Michener, James A.

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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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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

38.

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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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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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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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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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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Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

Robinson, James H.

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The road to excellence is always under construction

45.

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 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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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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

49.

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

Feinstein, Dianne