Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Wooden, John

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Washington, Booker T.

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

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

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

Malloch, Douglas

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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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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 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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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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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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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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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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art -- an individual masterpiece.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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.

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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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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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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

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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Roddick, Anita

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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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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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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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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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

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

Aristotle

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken