Motivational Quotes

Excellence

There is no finish line.

- Nike Corporation

Best Quotes about Excellence

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

Hurt, William

Let each day be your masterpiece.

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

Meyer, Paul J.

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

Getty, J. Paul

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Gardner, John W.

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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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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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

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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 fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Wooden, John

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Mandino, Og

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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

Lombardi, Vince

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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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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

O'Connor, Flannery