Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Malloch, Douglas

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

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

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Shakespeare, William

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

Trevino, Lee

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the best in your chosen field, whatever it is.

Mitchell, Don G.

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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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It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Berry, Wendell

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Mandino, Og

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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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Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Marden, Orison Swett

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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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

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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

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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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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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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Wooden, John

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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