Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

Hurt, William

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Mandino, Og

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Carnegie, Andrew

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Wilde, Oscar

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If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator rather than catering to it.

Fischer, Edward

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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 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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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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

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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.

Garcia, Jerry