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

People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it.

Newton, Howard W.

The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away.

Fields, Debbie

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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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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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.

Powers, Melvin

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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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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Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

Gardner, John W.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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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

41.

Let each day be your masterpiece.

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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Feinstein, Dianne

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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Excellence is best described as doing the right things right -- selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

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

Mandino, Og

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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

Berry, Wendell