Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

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

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

Gardner, John W.

If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

Mead, Shepherd

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

O'Connor, Flannery

I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Mcdonald, John

10.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

11.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

12.

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

Waitley, Denis

13.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

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

15.

It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

Marden, Orison Swett

16.

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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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

18.

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

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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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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

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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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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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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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

25.

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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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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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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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 want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

30.

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

Keats, John

31.

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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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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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

34.

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

Mandino, Og

35.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Sands, Bill

40.

Let each day be your masterpiece.

41.

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

42.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority...