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

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Mandino, Og

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

It isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.

Malloch, Douglas

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Roddick, Anita

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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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

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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.

12.

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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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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 start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

20.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Riley, Pat

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Peters, Thomas J.

28.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Waitley, Denis

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

Wooden, John

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Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Robinson, James H.

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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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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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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

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

43.

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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Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Shakespeare, William

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Berry, Wendell