Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

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

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

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Thomas, Lowell

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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 road to excellence is always under construction

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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 start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

Trevino, Lee

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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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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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Wooden, John

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Young, Steve

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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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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 to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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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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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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Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

Gardner, John W.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator rather than catering to it.

Fischer, Edward

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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can reach. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries and predecessors; try to be better than yourself.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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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