Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Malloch, Douglas

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Mandino, Og

10.

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

Berry, Wendell

11.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

12.

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

Newton, Howard W.

13.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

14.

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

Washington, Booker T.

16.

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

Wooden, John

17.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

18.

One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

Brown, Les

19.

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Shakespeare, William

20.

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

21.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

O'Connor, Flannery

27.

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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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

29.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

30.

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

31.

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

Feinstein, Dianne

32.

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

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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

34.

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

Aristotle

35.

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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

37.

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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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.

39.

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Young, Steve

40.

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

Wilde, Oscar

42.

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

Trevino, Lee

43.

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

44.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

45.

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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

47.

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

49.

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

Mcdonald, John