Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Da Vinci, Leonardo

Best Quotes about Excellence

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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 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

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Shakespeare, William

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Robinson, James H.

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

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

Floyd, Ray

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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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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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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

Aristotle

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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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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 sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Roddick, Anita

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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Mcdonald, 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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

Riley, Pat

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

Gardner, John W.

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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.

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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