Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Woolf, Virginia

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

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

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

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

10.

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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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

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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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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the best in your chosen field, whatever it is.

Mitchell, Don G.

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

Berry, Wendell

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

Roddick, Anita

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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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 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 road to excellence is always under construction

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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

44.

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Wooden, John

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

48.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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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 principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Young, Steve