Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Washington, Booker T.

Best Quotes about Excellence

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.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

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

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

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Waitley, Denis

The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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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It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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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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If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Berry, Wendell

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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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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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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The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

John F. Kennedy

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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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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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

Mandino, Og

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aristotle

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