Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- O'Connor, Flannery

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

O'Connor, Flannery

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

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

Robinson, James H.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Mandino, Og

13.

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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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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We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

17.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

18.

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

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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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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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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 want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

23.

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

Mcdonald, John

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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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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

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

Keats, John

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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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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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

32.

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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

34.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Gardner, John W.

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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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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 is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.