Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.

- Vickery, A. Lou

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Marden, Orison Swett

I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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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 noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Aristotle

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Hazlitt, William

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A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Roddick, Anita

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Schwartz, David J.

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Mandino, Og

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

Thomas, Lowell

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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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Today, and every day, 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. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive. You deserve them!

Mandino, Og

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

28.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Lincoln, Abraham

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One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. There is a special sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in its parts, which the superficial person who leaves his or her work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition, can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns any work into art. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

Mandino, Og

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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

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

Wooden, John

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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

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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

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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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There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

Heifetz, Jascha

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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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Aristotle