Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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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Best Quotes about Excellence

Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Wooden, John

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

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.

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

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

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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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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.

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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Keats, John

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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Floyd, Ray

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Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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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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It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Gardner, John W.

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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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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 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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.