Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Excellence

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Gracian, Baltasar

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

It isn't what you do, but how you do it.

Wooden, John

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

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Hurt, William

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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Berry, Wendell

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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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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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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Keats, John

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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Gardner, John W.

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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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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.