Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

- Mckain, Robert J.

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

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

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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.

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

Wilde, Oscar

The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do...

Schwartz, David J.

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.

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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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

18.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Keats, John

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If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator rather than catering to it.

Fischer, Edward

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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Mandino, Og

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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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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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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Washington, Booker T.

43.

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Roddick, Anita

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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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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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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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett