Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Watson, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Berry, Wendell

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

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

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

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

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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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Malloch, Douglas

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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Kingsley, Charles

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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest. I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.

Truman, Harry S

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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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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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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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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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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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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If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.

Lombardi, Vince

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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 can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Gracian, Baltasar

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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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 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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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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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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Garfield, Charles A.