Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.

- Sands, Bill

Best Quotes about Excellence

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Washington, Booker T.

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

People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Owens, Jesse

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

Marden, Orison Swett

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

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

Mead, Shepherd

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

Riley, Pat

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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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Lincoln, Abraham

12.

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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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

14.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

15.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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.

18.

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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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 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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Robinson, James H.

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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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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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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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Keats, John

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Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

Thomas, Lowell

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

44.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Malloch, Douglas

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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

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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.