Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

Roddick, Anita

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 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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

Lombardi, Vince

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Aristotle

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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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We must do the best we can with what we have.

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Robinson, James H.

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Mandino, Og

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

Thomas, Lowell

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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

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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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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 is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.

Aristotle

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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 noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

Mcdonald, John

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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

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

Riley, Pat

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

Keats, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 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

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