Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Mcdonald, John

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

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

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

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

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

10.

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

11.

I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

12.

The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do...

Schwartz, David J.

13.

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

Hazlitt, William

14.

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

15.

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

Sallust

19.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

22.

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

Gardner, John W.

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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

24.

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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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

26.

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.

27.

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

28.

I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

29.

Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.

Sands, Bill

30.

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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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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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

33.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

34.

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Aristotle

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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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

39.

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

Mandino, Og

40.

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Aristotle

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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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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

46.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

47.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

48.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

49.

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

Keats, John