Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Popplestone, Charles E.

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

To do the right thing, at the right time, in the right way; to do some things better than they were ever done before; to eliminate errors; to know both sides of the question; to be courteous; to be an example; to work for the love of work; to anticipate requirements; to develop resources; to recognize no impediments; to master circumstances; to act from reason rather than rule; to be satisfied with nothing short of perfection.

Marshall Field & Company

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

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

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

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

Newton, Howard W.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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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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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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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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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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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Washington, Booker T.

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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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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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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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.

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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 no top. There are always further heights to reach.

Heifetz, Jascha

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

Robinson, James H.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Wilde, Oscar

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.

Hemingway, Ernest

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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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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.

Trevino, Lee

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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 road to excellence is always under construction

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

Riley, Pat

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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Hill, Napoleon

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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