Motivational Quotes

Excellence

It isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.

- Malloch, Douglas

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Floyd, Ray

Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

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

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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 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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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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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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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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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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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.

Pollock, Channing

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Washington, Booker T.

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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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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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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Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hall-mark of excellence.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Thomas, Lowell

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo