Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Peters, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Excellence

I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

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

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

Keats, John

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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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 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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The road to excellence is always under construction

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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 do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

Joubert, Joseph

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Sallust

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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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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

Berry, Wendell

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

Hurt, William

27.

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

28.

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

Schwartz, David J.

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator rather than catering to it.

Fischer, Edward

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Hazlitt, William

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Mandino, Og

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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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

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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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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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There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

Darwin, Francis

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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.