Motivational Quotes

Excellence

I start where the last man left off.

- Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

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

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

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

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

10.

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

11.

People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it.

Newton, Howard W.

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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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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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To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

18.

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

Waitley, Denis

19.

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

Mcdonald, John

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Berry, Wendell

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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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It is only in your mind that you have to excel, at anything or everything. Of course, it would be very nice to excel at most things. Indeed, we recommend that you try and do your best. But realistically, you are entitled to do the bare minimum to get by. All your accomplishments are just a bonus, something to enjoy, not requirements. You don't have to do anything to prove that you are worthy of existing.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

25.

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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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

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

Floyd, Ray

28.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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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

33.

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Young, Steve

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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

37.

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

Mandino, Og

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Keats, John

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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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.

42.

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

Meyer, Paul J.

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I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

45.

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.