Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

Sir Winston Churchill

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

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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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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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It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.

Aristotle

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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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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Berry, Wendell

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Gardner, John W.

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

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Mandino, Og

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

Mcdonald, John

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Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

John F. Kennedy

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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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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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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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