Quotes about excellence

"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 on excellence   

"The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action."

Godin, Andre on excellence
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"Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on excellence   

"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 on excellence   

"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 on excellence   

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

Gracian, Baltasar on excellence   

"Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more."

Harriman, Edward H. on excellence   

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

Hazlitt, William on excellence   

"There is no top. There are always further heights to reach."

Heifetz, Jascha on excellence   

"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 on excellence
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"Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steer is the way to it."

Hesiod on excellence   

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

Hill, Napoleon on excellence
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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 on excellence   

"You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold."

Hurt, William on excellence   

"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 on excellence   

"The noblest search is the search for excellence."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on excellence
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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 on excellence   

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

Keats, John on excellence   

"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."

King Jr. Martin Luther on excellence
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"Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know."

Kingsley, Charles on excellence   

"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 on excellence   

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

Lincoln, Abraham on excellence
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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 on excellence
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"When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace."

Lubbock, Sir John on excellence   

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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. on excellence
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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."

Macauley, Ed on excellence
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"It isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are."

Malloch, Douglas on excellence   

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

Mandino, Og on excellence
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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 on excellence   

"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 on excellence
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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 on excellence   

"The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such."

Mandino, Og on excellence   

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

Mansfield, Katherine on excellence   

"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 on excellence   

"Doing common things uncommonly well."

Marden, Orison Swett on excellence   

"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 on excellence   

"It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others."

Marden, Orison Swett on excellence   

"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 on excellence   

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

Marden, Orison Swett on excellence