Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Doing common things uncommonly well.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about 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

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Powers, Melvin

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

Roddick, Anita

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

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

Mcdonald, John

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

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

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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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

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

Thomas, Lowell

12.

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Mandino, Og

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Malloch, Douglas

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gracian, Baltasar

25.

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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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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The road to excellence is always under construction

28.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

32.

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

33.

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

Trevino, Lee

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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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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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

37.

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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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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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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

Aristotle