Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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.

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Kingsley, Charles

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

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

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Floyd, Ray

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

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Feinstein, Dianne

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

Shakespeare, William

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. There is a special sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in its parts, which the superficial person who leaves his or her work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition, can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns any work into art. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

Mandino, Og

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Riley, Pat

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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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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We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Mandino, Og

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Berry, Wendell

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

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

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

Aristotle

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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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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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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.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Keats, John

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.