Motivational Quotes

Excellence

A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.

- Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

Mandino, Og

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Pearl Buck

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

Mcdonald, John

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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Hill, Napoleon

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No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.

Pollock, Channing

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Riley, Pat

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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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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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Wooden, John

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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 takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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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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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

O'Connor, Flannery

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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

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

Robinson, James H.

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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

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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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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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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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Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hall-mark of excellence.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Berry, Wendell

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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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You always have to give 100 percent, because if you don't, someone, someplace, will give 100 percent and will beat you when you meet.

Macauley, Ed

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

Thomas, Lowell

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The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Waitley, Denis