Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Gardner, John W.

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

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

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Trevino, Lee

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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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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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It isn't what you do, but how you do it.

Wooden, John

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

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

Keats, John

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It isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.

Malloch, Douglas

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It is only in your mind that you have to excel, at anything or everything. Of course, it would be very nice to excel at most things. Indeed, we recommend that you try and do your best. But realistically, you are entitled to do the bare minimum to get by. All your accomplishments are just a bonus, something to enjoy, not requirements. You don't have to do anything to prove that you are worthy of existing.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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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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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There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

Darwin, Francis

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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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If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

Watson, Thomas J.

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable.

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Gracian, Baltasar