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

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

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

John F. Kennedy

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Mead, Shepherd

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

Aristotle

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Roddick, Anita

11.

One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Hazlitt, William

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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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

18.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Hill, Napoleon

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Resolve to make each day the very best and don't let anyone get in your way. If they do, step on them.

Benson, Ivan

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Thomas, Lowell

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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

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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

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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.

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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Scott, Sir Walter

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Floyd, Ray

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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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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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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