Motivational Quotes

Excellence

Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.

- Sands, Bill

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Sallust

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

Aristotle

Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

10.

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

11.

Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

12.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Gardner, John W.

13.

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

Mandino, Og

14.

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

15.

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

Robinson, James H.

16.

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Woolf, Virginia

17.

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

Watson, Thomas J.

18.

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

19.

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

20.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

22.

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

Waitley, Denis

23.

The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

24.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

25.

There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.

Scott, Sir Walter

26.

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

27.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Hill, Napoleon

28.

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

29.

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

Mansfield, Katherine

30.

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

31.

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

Wooden, John

32.

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

33.

The road to excellence is always under construction

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Trevino, Lee

37.

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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With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

Aristotle

39.

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

40.

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

Wilde, Oscar

41.

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

Peters, Thomas J.

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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

43.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Feinstein, Dianne

44.

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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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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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

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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

48.

Let each day be your masterpiece.

49.

Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.

Sands, Bill

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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