Motivational Quotes

Excellence

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

- Shana Alexander

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Feinstein, Dianne

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

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

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

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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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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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Keats, John

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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

Aristotle

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Riley, Pat

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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 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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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Aristotle

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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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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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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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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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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