Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Mansfield, Katherine

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Feinstein, Dianne

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

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

Hazlitt, William

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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

11.

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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A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

14.

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

15.

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

16.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

17.

Resolve to make each day the very best and don't let anyone get in your way. If they do, step on them.

Benson, Ivan

18.

I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

19.

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

20.

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

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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

23.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

24.

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

Wooden, John

25.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

30.

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

31.

Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.

Sands, Bill

32.

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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I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

36.

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

John F. Kennedy

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

41.

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

Berry, Wendell

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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

45.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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