Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

It isn't what you do, but how you do it.

Wooden, John

The road to excellence is always under construction

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Aristotle

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

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

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

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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Mandino, Og

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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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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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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Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

Robinson, James H.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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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

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

John F. Kennedy

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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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.

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You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Tracy, Brian

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One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

Brown, Les

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Gardner, John W.

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.