Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Roddick, Anita

Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Shakespeare, William

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.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Malloch, Douglas

10.

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

Sir Winston Churchill

11.

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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

13.

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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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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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

17.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Keats, John

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To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Aristotle

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There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

Trevino, Lee

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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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

26.

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

Feinstein, Dianne

27.

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

Thomas, Lowell

28.

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

29.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

30.

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

32.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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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

34.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

38.

The road to excellence is always under construction

39.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Wooden, John

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

50.

People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Owens, Jesse