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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.
Virginia Woolf
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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.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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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.
Charles M. Schwab
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Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
Og Mandino
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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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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
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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.
Charles Kingsley
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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.
Og Mandino
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Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
Andrew Carnegie
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Doing common things uncommonly well.
Orison Swett Marden
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Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence.
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Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
George Eliot
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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.
Aristotle
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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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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
John W. Gardner
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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Pat Riley
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Booker T. Washington
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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
José Ortega y Gasset
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Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change.
Thomas J. Peters
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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.
Jean de La Bruyère
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Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.
Orison Swett Marden
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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.
Harry S. Truman
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I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
Leonardo da Vinci
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Oscar Wilde
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I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Abraham Lincoln
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I start where the last man left off.
Thomas Edison
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I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
Katherine Mansfield
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I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism and sexism.
Oprah Winfrey
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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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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.
Thomas J. Watson
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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Napoleon Hill
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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.
Thomas J. Watson
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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.
Vince Lombardi
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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.
Napoleon Hill
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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.
Orison Swett Marden
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
Seneca the Younger
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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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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.
Orison Swett Marden
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It isn't what you do, but how you do it.
John Wooden
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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.
Ernest Hemingway
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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.
Orison Swett Marden
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Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
Thomas Carlyle
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Let each day be your masterpiece.
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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...
Orison Swett Marden
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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.
Oprah Winfrey
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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.
Og Mandino
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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.
Les Brown
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One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect.
William Hazlitt
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
W. Somerset Maugham
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People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence.
Orison Swett Marden
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle
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Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
Orison Swett Marden
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Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.
David Ogilvy
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Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.
Les Brown
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Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.
Orison Swett Marden
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Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for.
Woodrow Wilson
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The best is the enemy of the good.
Voltaire
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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.
Henry Ford
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The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
John Keats
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The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
Orison Swett Marden
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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.
John W. Gardner
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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.
Lee Iacocca
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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.
J. Paul Getty
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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.
Denis Waitley
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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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.
Og Mandino
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The road to excellence is always under construction
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The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do...
David J. Schwartz
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Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.
William Shakespeare
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There is always a best way of doing everything.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority...
Orison Swett Marden
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
Baltasar Gracián y Morales
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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.
John Stuart Mill
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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
Orison Swett Marden
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There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
Walter Scott
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There's a way to do better... find it.
Thomas Edison
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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.
Oliver Goldsmith
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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!
Og Mandino
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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.
José Ortega y Gasset
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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.
Joseph Joubert
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When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
Sir John Lubbock, 1st Baronet
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When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.
William Shakespeare
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Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.
John W. Gardner
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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.
Denis Waitley
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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.
Brian Tracy
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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.
Napoleon Hill
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