Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about 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

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

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

Berry, Wendell

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

Feinstein, Dianne

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

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

Gardner, John W.

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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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 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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Wooden, John

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

Riley, Pat

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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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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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

Ogilvy, David

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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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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Garfield, Charles A.