Motivational Quotes

Excellence

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

- Washington, Booker T.

Best Quotes about Excellence

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Doing common things uncommonly well.

Marden, Orison Swett

It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.

Berry, Wendell

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Roddick, Anita

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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 rarely found, more rarely valued.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Beamon, Bob

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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 noblest search is the search for excellence.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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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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There is no finish line.

Nike Corporation

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All you owe the public is a good performance.

Bogart, Humphrey

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Washington, Booker T.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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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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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

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I can do small things in a great way.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Robinson, James H.

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Strive for excellence, not perfection.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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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

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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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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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People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Blanchard, Ken

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

O'Connor, Flannery

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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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Good enough never is.

Field, Debbi

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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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There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish.

Lucado, Max L.

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

Feinstein, Dianne

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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

Shana Alexander

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

Sill, Edward Rowland

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You always have to give 100 percent, because if you don't, someone, someplace, will give 100 percent and will beat you when you meet.