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Thursday, 24 July 2008
Daily Quote:
"Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown." (Beecher, Henry Ward - Success)

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Browse Quotations about Excellence

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.
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.
All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.
All you owe the public is a good performance.
Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
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.
Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.
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.
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.
Become all that you are capable of becoming!
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.
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.
Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the best in your chosen field, whatever it is.
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.
Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.
Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or do anything you want.
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
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.
Doing common things uncommonly well.
Don't waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence -- doing your best.
Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Excellence is best described as doing the right things right -- selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly.
Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.
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.
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.
Good enough never is.
Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.
Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified.
He who has put a good finish to his undertaking is said to have placed a golden crown to the whole.
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.
I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
I can do small things in a great way.
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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.
I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
I start where the last man left off.
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.
I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism and sexism.
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.
If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.
If something is exceptionally well done it has embedded in it's very existence the aim of lifting the common denominator rather than catering to it.
If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.
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.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.
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.
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
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.
It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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.
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.
It isn't by size that you win or fail -- be the best of whatever you are.
It isn't what you do, but how you do it.
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.
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.
Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
Let each day be your masterpiece.
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...
Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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.
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.
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 -- yo