Motivational Quotes

Excellence

The kind of people I look for to fill top management spots are the eager beavers, the mavericks. These are the guys who try to do more than they're expected to do -- they always reach.

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Mcdonald, John

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

Trevino, Lee

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

Mead, Shepherd

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

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

There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

Mill, John Stuart

10.

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

11.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

Berry, Wendell

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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The road to excellence is always under construction

25.

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.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

29.

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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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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With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

Aristotle

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

Floyd, Ray

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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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The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do...

Schwartz, David J.

35.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Gracian, Baltasar

37.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

40.

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 noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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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 top. There are always further heights to reach.

Heifetz, Jascha

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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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It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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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

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset