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

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

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Sands, Bill

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

Michener, James A.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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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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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.

19.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Anybody who accepts mediocrity -- in school, on the job, in life -- is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.

Knight, Charles

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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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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.

28.

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

Gardner, John W.

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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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A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator rather than catering to it.

Fischer, Edward

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Robinson, James H.

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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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Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steer is the way to it.

Hesiod

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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

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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 always have to give 100 percent, because if you don't, someone, someplace, will give 100 percent and will beat you when you meet.

Macauley, Ed

44.

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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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 sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.