Motivational Quotes

Excellence

The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.

- Powers, Melvin

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

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

Mandino, Og

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.

Sands, Bill

You must be resolutely determined that whatever you do shall always be the best of which you are capable.

Popplestone, Charles E.

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

Let each day be your masterpiece.

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 isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.

Malloch, Douglas

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

Riley, Pat

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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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Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Keats, John

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Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Robinson, James H.

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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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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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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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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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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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You're probably not a member of a major league baseball team, your errors, unless they are truly spectacular, don't show up in the morning paper.

Goodsell, Jane

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

Feinstein, Dianne

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

Floyd, Ray

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Hazlitt, William

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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.