Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Wooden, John

Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Gracian, Baltasar

Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Waitley, Denis

10.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

11.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

12.

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

13.

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

Hurt, William

14.

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

15.

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

16.

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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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

18.

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

Newton, Howard W.

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

20.

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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I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away.

Fields, Debbie

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

Keats, John

24.

If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

Mead, Shepherd

25.

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

26.

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

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

28.

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

29.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

30.

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

Gardner, John W.

31.

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Mandino, Og

33.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

34.

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 road to excellence is always under construction

36.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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

41.

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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

43.

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

Berry, Wendell

44.

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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You always have to give 100 percent, because if you don't, someone, someplace, will give 100 percent and will beat you when you meet.

Macauley, Ed

46.

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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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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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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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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Sanders, Col. Harland