Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Aristotle

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Wooden, John

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

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

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Berry, Wendell

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You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spectacular, don't show up in the morning paper.

Goodsell, Jane

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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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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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One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. There is a special sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in its parts, which the superficial person who leaves his or her work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition, can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns any work into art. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

Mandino, Og

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

Mcdonald, John

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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Floyd, Ray

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Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Shakespeare, William

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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 can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Robinson, James H.

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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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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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There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

Heifetz, Jascha

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.