Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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.

Best Quotes about Excellence

You must be resolutely determined that whatever you do shall always be the best of which you are capable.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Feinstein, Dianne

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

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

One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

Brown, Les

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Wooden, John

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Young, Steve

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

Keats, 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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Mcdonald, John

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Mandino, Og

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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

Newton, Howard 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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There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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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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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Pearl Buck

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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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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Wilde, Oscar

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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert J.