Motivational Quotes

Excellence

There is no finish line.

- Nike Corporation

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

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

Gardner, John W.

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

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

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

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

John F. Kennedy

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

Mandino, Og

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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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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 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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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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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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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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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The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

Keats, John

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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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Newton, Howard W.

32.

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Robinson, James H.

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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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It isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.

Malloch, Douglas

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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 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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Tracy, Brian

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

Berry, Wendell

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.