Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Roddick, Anita

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Trevino, Lee

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

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Wooden, John

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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 road to excellence is always under construction

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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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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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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

Keats, John

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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.

Mandino, Og

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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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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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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

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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

O'Connor, Flannery

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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

Gardner, John W.

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I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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 noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Riley, Pat

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

Sallust