Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Mcdonald, John

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Riley, Pat

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

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.

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

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

Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Sands, Bill

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.

Marden, Orison Swett

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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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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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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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.

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

Aristotle

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

Keats, John

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If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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...

Marden, Orison Swett

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish.

Lucado, Max L.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do...

Schwartz, David J.

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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 is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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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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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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I start where the last man left off.

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

Berry, Wendell

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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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