Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Mcdonald, John

Best Quotes about Excellence

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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

13.

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

Gardner, John W.

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The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.

Powers, Melvin

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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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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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

18.

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.

19.

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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The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.

Gaberino, Geoffrey

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

25.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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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

27.

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

28.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

31.

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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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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Don't waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence -- doing your best.

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Wooden, John

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Robinson, James H.

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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

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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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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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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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 success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do...

Schwartz, David J.