Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Young, Steve

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steer is the way to it.

Hesiod

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Marden, Orison Swett

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Wooden, John

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

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

Mandino, Og

13.

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.

14.

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

Robinson, James H.

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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

18.

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

Riley, Pat

19.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in more fruitful areas.

Powers, Melvin

22.

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

Mcdonald, John

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

25.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

26.

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

Roddick, Anita

27.

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Gracian, Baltasar

31.

Excellence is best described as doing the right things right -- selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.

32.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

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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

35.

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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The road to excellence is always under construction

37.

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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Become all that you are capable of becoming!

Mckain, Robert 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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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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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

42.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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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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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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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.