Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Robinson, James H.

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator rather than catering to it.

Fischer, Edward

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

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

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.

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Wooden, John

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

Roddick, Anita

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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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

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

Robinson, James H.

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Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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 must do the best we can with what we have.

Sill, Edward Rowland

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Resolve to make each day the very best and don't let anyone get in your way. If they do, step on them.

Benson, Ivan

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Floyd, Ray

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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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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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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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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 best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

Ford, Henry

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

Brown, Les

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

Mcdonald, John

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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 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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre