Motivational Quotes

Excellence

If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

- Mead, Shepherd

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Mcdonald, John

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

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.

Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

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

Berry, Wendell

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

Aristotle

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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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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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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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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People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Owens, Jesse

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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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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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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It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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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.

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

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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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away.

Fields, Debbie

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Roddick, Anita

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The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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

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

Washington, Booker T.