Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Schwartz, David J.

Best Quotes about Excellence

You must be resolutely determined that whatever you do shall always be the best of which you are capable.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Sallust

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trevino, Lee

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

Aristotle

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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Mead, Shepherd

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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

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

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hurt, William

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

Sands, Bill

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

Michener, James A.

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Hazlitt, William

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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