Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Olivier, Sir Lawrence

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Riley, Pat

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

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

Hurt, William

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

10.

Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the best in your chosen field, whatever it is.

Mitchell, Don G.

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

Wooden, John

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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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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 master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

Michener, James A.

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

Gardner, John W.

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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 quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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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

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

33.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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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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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 is only in your mind that you have to excel, at anything or everything. Of course, it would be very nice to excel at most things. Indeed, we recommend that you try and do your best. But realistically, you are entitled to do the bare minimum to get by. All your accomplishments are just a bonus, something to enjoy, not requirements. You don't have to do anything to prove that you are worthy of existing.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Newton, Howard W.

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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 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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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.

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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.