Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Garfield, Charles A.

Best Quotes about Excellence

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Keats, John

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

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.

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

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

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

Hurt, William

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Thomas, Lowell

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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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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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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.

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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.

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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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I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest. I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.

Truman, Harry S

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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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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 quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Berry, Wendell

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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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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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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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

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.