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

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

Floyd, Ray

The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

The road to excellence is always under construction

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Robinson, James H.

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

Watson, Thomas J.

10.

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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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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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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 takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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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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.

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You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

Hurt, William

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Sallust

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Malloch, Douglas

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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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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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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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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

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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

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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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish.

Lucado, Max L.

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Wooden, John

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To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

John F. Kennedy

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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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