Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

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

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Malloch, Douglas

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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Kingsley, Charles

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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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

Keats, John

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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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

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The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

Mead, Shepherd

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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

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Wilde, Oscar

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If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Roddick, Anita

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Mcdonald, John

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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The road to excellence is always under construction