Motivational Quotes

Excellence

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Excellence

Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.

Sands, Bill

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Keats, John

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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.

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 none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Gracian, Baltasar

Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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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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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 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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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.

Beamon, Bob

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art -- an individual masterpiece.

Waitley, Denis

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

Robinson, James H.

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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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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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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