Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

It isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.

Malloch, Douglas

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.

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

Powers, Melvin

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

I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

10.

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Washington, Booker T.

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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Berry, Wendell

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Floyd, Ray

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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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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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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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Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Schwartz, David J.

42.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Mcdonald, John

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Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.

Marden, Orison Swett