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

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.

Powers, Melvin

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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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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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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Mandino, Og

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There's a way to do better... find it.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Keats, John

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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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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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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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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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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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.

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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Mcdonald, John

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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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