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

Sir Winston Churchill

We must do the best we can with what we have.

Sill, Edward Rowland

I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away.

Fields, Debbie

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Aristotle

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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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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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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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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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

14.

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

Malloch, Douglas

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

17.

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

Mead, Shepherd

18.

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

Young, Steve

19.

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

Trevino, Lee

20.

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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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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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

25.

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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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.

27.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

28.

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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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

30.

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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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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

33.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

34.

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

Floyd, Ray

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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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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.

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

Roddick, Anita

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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

44.

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

Mcdonald, John

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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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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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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

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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

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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