Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

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

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

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

Robinson, James H.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can reach. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries and predecessors; try to be better than yourself.

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

Schwartz, David J.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spectacular, don't show up in the morning paper.

Goodsell, Jane

11.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steer is the way to it.

Hesiod

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

Mandino, Og

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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

21.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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Don't waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence -- doing your best.

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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The road to excellence is always under construction

32.

I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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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Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Washington, Booker T.

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

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

Roddick, Anita

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Floyd, Ray

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Tracy, Brian

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

John F. Kennedy

46.

Let each day be your masterpiece.

47.

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Thomas, Lowell

49.

I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest. I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.

Truman, Harry S

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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