Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Feinstein, Dianne

Marden, Orison Swett

I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away.

Fields, Debbie

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

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Peters, Thomas J.

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

Darwin, Francis

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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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

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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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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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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.

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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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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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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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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There's a way to do better... find it.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Mcdonald, John

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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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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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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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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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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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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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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Riley, Pat

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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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.