Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

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

Garfield, Charles A.

It is only in your mind that you have to excel, at anything or everything. Of course, it would be very nice to excel at most things. Indeed, we recommend that you try and do your best. But realistically, you are entitled to do the bare minimum to get by. All your accomplishments are just a bonus, something to enjoy, not requirements. You don't have to do anything to prove that you are worthy of existing.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Peters, Thomas J.

13.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

17.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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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

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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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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'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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Floyd, Ray

26.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

27.

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

28.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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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 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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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.

32.

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

Mcdonald, John

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest. I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.

Truman, Harry S

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Hazlitt, William

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I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Gardner, John W.