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

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 start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Mandino, Og

If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

Mead, Shepherd

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

Robinson, James H.

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.

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

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

John F. Kennedy

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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.

11.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Malloch, Douglas

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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 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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Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.

Peters, Thomas J.

28.

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

29.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Floyd, Ray

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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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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 a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish.

Lucado, Max L.

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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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

43.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Wooden, John

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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 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 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.

49.

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

Edison, Thomas A.