1. 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.
2. Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. ~Og Mandino
3. 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. ~Unknown
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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. ~Don G. Mitchell
7. 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. ~Paul J. Meyer
8. Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can. ~Lowell Thomas
9. Don't waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence -- doing your best. ~Sir Lawrence Olivier
10. Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence. ~Unknown
11. Excellence and size are fundamentally incompatible. ~Robert Townsend
12. Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world. ~George Eliot
13. Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. ~Warren G. Bennis
14. Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days. ~Ted W. Engstrom
15. Excellence is best described as doing the right things right -- selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly. ~Unknown
16. Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. ~John W. Gardner
17. Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. ~Ralph Marston
18. Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued. ~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
19. Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better. ~Pat Riley
20. Excellence is the sum of the individual actions of hundreds of thousands of people who do the thousands of little things that add up to a big difference. ~Unknown
21. Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer. ~Rick Pitino
22. Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. ~Booker T. Washington
23. Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do. ~Jose Ortega Y Gasset
24. Excellent firms don't believe in excellence -- only in constant improvement and constant change. ~Thomas J. Peters
25. 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. ~A. Lou Vickery
26. Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened. ~Orison Swett Marden
27. Great men are little men expanded; great lives are ordinary lives intensified. ~Wilferd A. Peterson
28. He who has put a good finish to his undertaking is said to have placed a golden crown to the whole. ~Eustachius
29. 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
30. I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best. ~Flannery O'Connor
31. I can do small things in a great way. ~James Freeman Clarke
32. I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have. ~Leonardo Da Vinci
33. I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. ~Abraham Lincoln
34. If a man is called to be a street-sweeper, 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 street-sweeper who did his job well. ~Martin Luther King Jr.
35. If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. ~Napoleon Hill
36. Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. ~Aristotle
37. Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it. ~William Makepeace Thackeray
38. Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ~Aristotle
39. 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
40. The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. ~Charles Dudley Warner
41. The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying. ~David Ogilvy
42. There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. ~Liberty Hyde Bailey
43. There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living. ~David Starr Jordan
44. There's a way to do better... find it. ~Thomas Alva Edison
45. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ~Aristotle