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

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

Hazlitt, William

Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.

Vickery, A. Lou

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Berry, Wendell

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.

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

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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.

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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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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 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

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Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

Thomas, Lowell

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It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Riley, Pat

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Gardner, John W.

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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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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Pearl Buck

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

Mandino, Og

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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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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The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

Ford, Henry

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

Keats, John

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

Aristotle

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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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 noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Mcdonald, John

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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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People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it.

Newton, Howard W.

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There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority...