Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Powers, Melvin

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Waitley, Denis

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

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Sallust

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

Thomas, Lowell

Today, and every day, 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. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive. You deserve them!

Mandino, Og

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

Schwartz, David J.

17.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

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

Newton, Howard W.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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

Keats, John

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Lincoln, Abraham

32.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

33.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can reach. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries and predecessors; try to be better than yourself.

34.

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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

Mcdonald, John

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I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest. I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.

Truman, Harry S

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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Wooden, John

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

Edison, Thomas A.

43.

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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To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

Goldsmith, Oliver

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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

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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.

Garcia, Jerry

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There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.

Darwin, Francis