Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

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

Mcdonald, John

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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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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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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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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I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

Sanders, Col. Harland

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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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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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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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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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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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Robinson, James H.

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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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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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I use nothing but the best ingredients. My cookies are always baked fresh. I price cookies so that you cannot make them at home for any less. And I still give cookies away.

Fields, Debbie

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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

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

Keats, John

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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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True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Simmons, Charles

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Wooden, John

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

Mansfield, Katherine