Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Carnegie, Andrew

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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.

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Schwartz, David J.

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

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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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The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.

Gaberino, Geoffrey

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Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Washington, Booker T.

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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

19.

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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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Berry, Wendell

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It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Mead, Shepherd

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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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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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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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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Mcdonald, 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

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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman