Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Heifetz, Jascha

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Roddick, Anita

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

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

Heifetz, Jascha

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Tracy, Brian

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

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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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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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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Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Mandino, Og

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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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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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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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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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Riley, Pat

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Hazlitt, William

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Wooden, John

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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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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No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.

Pollock, Channing

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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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Robinson, James H.