Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Peters, Thomas J.

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Gracian, Baltasar

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest. I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.

Truman, Harry S

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Feinstein, Dianne

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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.

I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Pearl Buck

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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

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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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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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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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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Riley, Pat

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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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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

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

Keats, John

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

Thomas, Lowell

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the best in your chosen field, whatever it is.

Mitchell, Don G.

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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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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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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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.

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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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.

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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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