Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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.

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Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

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

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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.

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

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

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Wooden, John

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

Mcdonald, John

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Marden, Orison Swett

18.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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Anybody who accepts mediocrity -- in school, on the job, in life -- is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.

Knight, Charles

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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

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

Sallust

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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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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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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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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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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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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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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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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.

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Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

Thomas, Lowell

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Mead, Shepherd

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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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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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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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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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The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.

Getty, J. Paul

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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