Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Mcdonald, John

Best Quotes about Excellence

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.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Floyd, Ray

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

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Hill, Napoleon

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Aristotle

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

Malloch, Douglas

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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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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The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

John F. Kennedy

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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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We must do the best we can with what we have.

Sill, Edward Rowland

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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

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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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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 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 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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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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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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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The road to excellence is always under construction

33.

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

Darwin, Francis

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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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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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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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.

Mandino, Og

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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

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One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Tracy, Brian

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

Roddick, Anita

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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