Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.

Sands, Bill

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.

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

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

Robinson, James H.

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 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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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 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 road to excellence is always under construction

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I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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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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One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. There is a special sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in its parts, which the superficial person who leaves his or her work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition, can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns any work into art. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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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 secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Pearl Buck

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Washington, Booker T.

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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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It is only in your mind that you have to excel, at anything or everything. Of course, it would be very nice to excel at most things. Indeed, we recommend that you try and do your best. But realistically, you are entitled to do the bare minimum to get by. All your accomplishments are just a bonus, something to enjoy, not requirements. You don't have to do anything to prove that you are worthy of existing.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

34.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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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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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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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One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

Brown, Les

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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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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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Don't waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence -- doing your best.

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard