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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Young, Steve

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

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

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

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

Robinson, James H.

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

10.

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

11.

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

Wooden, John

12.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Pearl Buck

13.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

15.

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.

16.

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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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

18.

You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spectacular, don't show up in the morning paper.

Goodsell, Jane

19.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

25.

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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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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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

28.

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

Floyd, Ray

29.

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

30.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Keats, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Aristotle

36.

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

Mcdonald, John

37.

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

38.

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

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

Roddick, Anita

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

44.

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

Sallust

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Mandino, Og

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

Gardner, John W.

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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 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.