Motivational Quotes

Excellence

To do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way; to do some things better than they were ever done before; to eliminate errors; to know both sides of the question; to be courteous; to be an example; to work for the love of work; to anticipate requirements; to develop resources; to recognize no impediments; to master circumstances; to act from reason rather than rule; to be satisfied with nothing short of perfection.

- Marshall Field & Company

Best Quotes about Excellence

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

Gardner, John W.

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

Powers, Melvin

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Wooden, John

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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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I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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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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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Keats, John

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Mandino, Og

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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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken