Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- O'Connor, Flannery

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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

You must be resolutely determined that whatever you do shall always be the best of which you are capable.

Popplestone, Charles E.

The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.

Powers, Melvin

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

Washington, Booker T.

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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 not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

Berry, Wendell

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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it.

Newton, Howard W.

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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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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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Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Floyd, Ray

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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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.

Aristotle

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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 start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Excellence is best described as doing the right things right -- selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

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

John F. Kennedy

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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Riley, Pat