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

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

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

Aristotle

Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hazlitt, William

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority...

Marden, Orison Swett

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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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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Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.

Vickery, A. Lou

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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

John F. Kennedy

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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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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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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

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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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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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One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. There is a special sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in its parts, which the superficial person who leaves his or her work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition, can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns any work into art. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

Mandino, Og

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Mcdonald, John

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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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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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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

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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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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We must do the best we can with what we have.

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Floyd, Ray

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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 forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it.

Newton, Howard W.

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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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