Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Roddick, Anita

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Mandino, Og

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

Carnegie, Andrew

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.

Powers, Melvin

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

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

Berry, Wendell

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

10.

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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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

12.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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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

15.

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

Aristotle

16.

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

Floyd, Ray

17.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

18.

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

Thomas, Lowell

19.

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

20.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

24.

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

Schwartz, David J.

25.

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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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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The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

Ford, Henry

28.

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

Sands, Bill

29.

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

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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

31.

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

O'Connor, Flannery

32.

The road to excellence is always under construction

33.

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

34.

I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Malloch, Douglas

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

Riley, Pat

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Waitley, Denis

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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