Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Mcdonald, John

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Riley, Pat

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

Robinson, James H.

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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 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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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.

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Hazlitt, William

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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It isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.

Malloch, Douglas

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Berry, Wendell