Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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.

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

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

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

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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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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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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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Washington, Booker T.

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Aristotle

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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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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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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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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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Excellence is best described as doing the right things right -- selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

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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 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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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.

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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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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

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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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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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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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Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Malloch, Douglas

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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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 finish line.

Nike Corporation

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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

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

Wooden, John

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The road to excellence is always under construction