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

People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it.

Newton, Howard W.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

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

Sallust

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

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Watson, Thomas J.

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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

11.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

14.

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

Riley, Pat

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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.

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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

18.

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.

19.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

20.

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

Thomas, Lowell

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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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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

24.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

25.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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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

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Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the best in your chosen field, whatever it is.

Mitchell, Don G.

30.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

32.

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

Floyd, Ray

33.

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

34.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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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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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

38.

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

Mandino, Og

39.

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

Gardner, John W.

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Wilde, Oscar