Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

Aristotle

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

Robinson, James H.

I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

Sanders, Col. Harland

I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

Newton, Howard W.

11.

It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.

Marden, Orison Swett

12.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that little more which is worth all the rest.

Briggs, Dean

15.

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

16.

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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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.

18.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

19.

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.

20.

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

Sands, Bill

24.

Let each day be your masterpiece.

25.

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.

26.

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

Riley, Pat

27.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

30.

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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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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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

33.

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

34.

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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It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Mandino, Og

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

39.

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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Berry, Wendell

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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Mcdonald, John

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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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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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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