Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Gardner, John W.

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

You must be resolutely determined that whatever you do shall always be the best of which you are capable.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

Don't waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence -- doing your best.

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Mead, Shepherd

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Gardner, John W.

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do...

Schwartz, David J.

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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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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

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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

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Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that little more which is worth all the rest.

Briggs, Dean

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Washington, Booker T.

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There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Keats, John

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Mandino, Og

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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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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