Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Hurt, William

Best Quotes about Excellence

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

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

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.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

20.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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The road to excellence is always under construction

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Keats, John

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

Thomas, Lowell

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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

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

Washington, Booker T.

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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Mandino, Og

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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.