Substantive abandonment of convention is evidence of mastery.
Eric Parslow
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
The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.
Geoffrey Gaberino
You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.
William Hurt
There never will exist anything permanently noble and excellent in the character which is a stranger to resolute self-denial.
Sir Walter Scott
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
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
When you say you'll meet someone at 11:00 AM, be there at 10:45. When you promise a check on the 30th, send it on the 28th. Whatever you agree to do, do it a bit more. Start with your employees, then extend it to everyone you deal with. News will soon get around that you are a person of your word.
Charles Prestwich Scott
Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success.
Rev. Randall R. McBride, Jr.
Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.
Richard Rorty
If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.
Anita Roddick
Your best changes from moment to moment, sick or well, tired or rested. Remember that you are an imperfect human being. There is no value to judging yourself for
Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreem
If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
Thomas J. Watson
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.
By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.
Plato
Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
Johann von Goethe
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.
Ed Macauley
My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.
Charles Dickens
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