Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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.

There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

Trevino, Lee

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

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

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

Floyd, Ray

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

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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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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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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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Mead, Shepherd

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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

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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

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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Mandino, Og

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Hurt, William

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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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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One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. There is a special sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in its parts, which the superficial person who leaves his or her work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition, can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns any work into art. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

Mandino, Og

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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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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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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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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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The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Hill, Napoleon

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art -- an individual masterpiece.

Waitley, Denis