Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

The road to excellence is always under construction

The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

Getty, J. Paul

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

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

Floyd, Ray

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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

10.

I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

11.

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

12.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

13.

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

14.

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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There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

Darwin, Francis

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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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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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It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.

Aristotle

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Wooden, John

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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

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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

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

Washington, Booker T.

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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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

32.

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

Newton, Howard W.

33.

Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the best in your chosen field, whatever it is.

Mitchell, Don G.

34.

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

35.

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

Roddick, Anita

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

45.

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

Mandino, Og

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art -- an individual masterpiece.

Waitley, Denis

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

Marden, Orison Swett