Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

Trevino, Lee

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

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

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

Sir Winston Churchill

The road to excellence is always under construction

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

10.

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

11.

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

Roddick, Anita

12.

Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

13.

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

Schwartz, David J.

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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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Anybody who accepts mediocrity -- in school, on the job, in life -- is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.

Knight, Charles

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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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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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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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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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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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 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.

25.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

26.

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

27.

Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark...

Marden, Orison Swett

28.

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

Mandino, Og

29.

If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

Mead, Shepherd

30.

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

Robinson, James H.

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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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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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If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Watson, Thomas J.

34.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Gardner, John W.

36.

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

Wooden, John

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest. I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.

Truman, Harry S

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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