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

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

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

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Hurt, William

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

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

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

There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

Heifetz, Jascha

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Robinson, James H.

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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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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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Owens, Jesse

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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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The road to excellence is always under construction

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Today, and every day, 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. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive. You deserve them!

Mandino, Og

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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

Michener, James A.

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

Floyd, Ray

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Keats, John

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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 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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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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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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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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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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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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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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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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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

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Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

Thomas, Lowell

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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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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 sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

Aristotle

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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.