Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Olivier, Sir Lawrence

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Mead, Shepherd

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

Hurt, William

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.

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

Wooden, John

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

Floyd, Ray

11.

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

Roddick, Anita

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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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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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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 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

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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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

John F. Kennedy

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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 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 is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.

Aristotle

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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Mcdonald, John

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Feinstein, Dianne

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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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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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Robinson, James H.

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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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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

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset