Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Wooden, John

The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

Garfield, Charles A.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

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

Mandino, Og

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

Robinson, James H.

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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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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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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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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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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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 idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

Gardner, John W.

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Wilde, Oscar

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Keats, John

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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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.

34.

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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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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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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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The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

Michener, James A.

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

Mcdonald, John

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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