Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Keats, John

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

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

Schwartz, David J.

The road to excellence is always under construction

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Berry, Wendell

It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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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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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.

Mandino, Og

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Mandino, Og

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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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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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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Floyd, Ray

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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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

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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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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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Mcdonald, John

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre