Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

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

Mandino, Og

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

Hurt, William

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Mead, Shepherd

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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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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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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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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Wooden, John

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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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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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Newton, Howard W.

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

John F. Kennedy

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

Washington, Booker T.

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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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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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Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Watson, Thomas J.

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Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that little more which is worth all the rest.

Briggs, Dean

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Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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

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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!