Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.

- Peterson, Wilferd A.

Best Quotes about Excellence

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

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 best described as doing the right things right -- selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Roddick, Anita

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Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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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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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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It isn't what you do, but how you do it.

Wooden, John

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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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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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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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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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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 quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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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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To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

Mcdonald, John

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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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it.

Newton, Howard W.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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 road to excellence is always under construction

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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