Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Mead, Shepherd

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

Gardner, John W.

Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hurt, William

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

Wooden, John

The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do...

Schwartz, David J.

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

14.

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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Malloch, Douglas

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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 road to excellence is always under construction

28.

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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Owens, Jesse

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Keats, John

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The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Young, Steve

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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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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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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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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

47.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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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