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

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

Aristotle

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

The road to excellence is always under construction

Scott, Charles Prestwich

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

Gracian, Baltasar

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

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

10.

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

11.

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.

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

Wilde, Oscar

14.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

16.

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.

17.

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

18.

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

Floyd, Ray

19.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

20.

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

Hazlitt, William

21.

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

22.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

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

Schwartz, David J.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Feinstein, Dianne

28.

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

Keats, John

29.

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

30.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

34.

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

35.

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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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.

37.

There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

Mill, John Stuart

38.

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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We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

Joubert, Joseph

40.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

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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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

46.

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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

48.

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

Hurt, William