Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

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

Hurt, William

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Washington, Booker T.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Feinstein, Dianne

I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Hill, Napoleon

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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Resolve to make each day the very best and don't let anyone get in your way. If they do, step on them.

Benson, Ivan

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Wilde, Oscar

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Mandino, Og

20.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Waitley, Denis

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

Keats, John

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

Aristotle

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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There's a way to do better... find it.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Kingsley, Charles

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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

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

Malloch, Douglas

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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

41.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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