Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Washington, Booker T.

Best Quotes about Excellence

I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Roddick, Anita

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

Mandino, Og

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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

Gardner, John W.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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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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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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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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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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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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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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To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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 noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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 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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To do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way; to do some things better than they were ever done before; to eliminate errors; to know both sides of the question; to be courteous; to be an example; to work for the love of work; to anticipate requirements; to develop resources; to recognize no impediments; to master circumstances; to act from reason rather than rule; to be satisfied with nothing short of perfection.

Marshall Field & Company

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Wilde, Oscar

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Trevino, Lee

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Riley, Pat

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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.