Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Trevino, Lee

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Peters, Thomas J.

The road to excellence is always under construction

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

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

Thomas, Lowell

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

Waitley, Denis

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

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Tracy, Brian

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

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

Gardner, John W.

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I start where the last man left off.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Garfield, Charles A.

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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

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Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.

Rorty, Richard

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Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.

Godin, Andre

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

Trevino, Lee

24.

People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Owens, Jesse

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

27.

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.

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Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.

Vickery, A. Lou

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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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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Let each day be your masterpiece.

33.

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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One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

Brown, Les

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

Wooden, John

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

Keats, John

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One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Hazlitt, William

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

Mcdonald, John

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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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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Publilius Syrus

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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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.

Floyd, Ray

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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Gracian, Baltasar