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

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Floyd, Ray

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

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Washington, Booker T.

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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

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Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Hazlitt, William

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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Resolve to make each day the very best and don't let anyone get in your way. If they do, step on them.

Benson, Ivan

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

Roddick, Anita

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Robinson, James H.

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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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

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Wooden, John

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Sands, Bill

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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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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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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