Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Pearl Buck

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Young, Steve

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

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Feinstein, Dianne

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

Schwartz, David J.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Mandino, Og

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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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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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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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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It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles