Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about 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.

One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

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

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Berry, Wendell

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Roddick, Anita

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

Washington, Booker T.

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

Keats, John

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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 man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

Getty, J. Paul

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The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

Ford, Henry

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.

Aristotle

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

Trevino, 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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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Wooden, John

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Thomas, Lowell

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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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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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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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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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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