Motivational Quotes

Excellence

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

- Da Vinci, Leonardo

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

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

Mandino, Og

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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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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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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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.

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You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Hill, Napoleon

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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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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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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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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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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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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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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

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

Roddick, Anita

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Floyd, Ray

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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

Riley, Pat

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The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.

Gaberino, Geoffrey

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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

Berry, Wendell

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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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It is only in your mind that you have to excel, at anything or everything. Of course, it would be very nice to excel at most things. Indeed, we recommend that you try and do your best. But realistically, you are entitled to do the bare minimum to get by. All your accomplishments are just a bonus, something to enjoy, not requirements. You don't have to do anything to prove that you are worthy of existing.

Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi

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

Hill, Napoleon

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