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

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

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

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

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

Mcdonald, John

If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.

Floyd, Ray

I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Riley, Pat

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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.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Wooden, John

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There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

Mill, John Stuart

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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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

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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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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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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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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

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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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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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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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Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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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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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.