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

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

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can reach. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries and predecessors; try to be better than yourself.

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

Schwartz, David J.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

Mead, Shepherd

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

Gracian, Baltasar

People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Owens, Jesse

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

Hazlitt, William

11.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Wooden, John

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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Kingsley, Charles

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.

Gaberino, Geoffrey

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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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

23.

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

Mandino, Og

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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 fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Washington, Booker T.

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Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

Brown, Les

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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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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.

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken