Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Powers, Melvin

Best Quotes about Excellence

The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Hill, Napoleon

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

John F. Kennedy

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

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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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Malloch, Douglas

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hazlitt, William

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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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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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 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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

Trevino, Lee

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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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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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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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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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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 quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do...

Schwartz, David J.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Mcdonald, John

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The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.

Gaberino, Geoffrey

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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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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One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. There is a special sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in its parts, which the superficial person who leaves his or her work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition, can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns any work into art. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

Mandino, Og

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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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 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.