Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Washington, Booker T.

Best Quotes about Excellence

People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you did it.

Newton, Howard W.

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Lincoln, Abraham

Excellence is best described as doing the right things right -- selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

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

Gardner, John W.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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 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

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

Floyd, Ray

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It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.

Aristotle

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Roddick, Anita

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Trevino, Lee

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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