Motivational Quotes

Excellence

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

- Godin, Andre

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Heifetz, Jascha

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

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

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

Robinson, James H.

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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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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.

12.

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

Wooden, John

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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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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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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Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.

Peters, Thomas J.

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Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

Ogilvy, David

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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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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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The road to excellence is always under construction

37.

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

39.

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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Gardner, John W.

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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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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