Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Waitley, Denis

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

Gardner, John W.

Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.

The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

11.

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

12.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.

Ford, Henry

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It isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.

Malloch, Douglas

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

Marden, Orison Swett

18.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

19.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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

25.

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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Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

Robinson, James H.

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

Thomas, Lowell

28.

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

29.

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

30.

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

Feinstein, Dianne

31.

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

Hurt, William

32.

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

33.

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Scott, Sir Walter

34.

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

Mcdonald, John

35.

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

36.

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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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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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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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

40.

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

Watson, Thomas J.

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

42.

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

Keats, John

45.

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

Schwartz, David J.

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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.

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