Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Sands, Bill

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Floyd, Ray

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

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

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

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 best described as doing the right things right -- selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest. I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.

Truman, Harry S

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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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You always have to give 100 percent, because if you don't, someone, someplace, will give 100 percent and will beat you when you meet.

Macauley, Ed

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

25.

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

Roddick, Anita

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

Wooden, John

27.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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

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

Mandino, Og

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

Ford, Henry

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

Berry, Wendell

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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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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 takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Riley, Pat

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.