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If an egg is broken by an outside force, life ends.
If an egg is broken by an inside force, then life begins.
Great things happen from the inside.
Author Unknown

Love the life you have while you create the life of your dreams
Hal Elrod

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence.
To know how to do something well is to enjoy it
Pearl S. Buck

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention,
sincere effort, intelligent direction, and skilful execution.
It represents the wise choice of many alternatives
Will Foster

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment
Oprah Winfrey

A man is relieved and happy when he has put his heart into his work and done his best
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The noblest search is the search for excellence
Lyndon B. Johnson

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.
Make big plans, aim high in hope and work
Daniel H. Burnham

Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day
Brian Tracy

Don't wait for an employer, friend, or mentor to show appreciation for your work.
Take pride in your own efforts on a daily basis
Denis Waitley

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are
August W. Hare

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential
these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence
Eddie Robinson

Strive for perfection in everything. Take the best that exists and make it better.
If it doesn't exist, create it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough
Henry Royce

Excellence is more fun than mediocrity
Leonard Berry

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment
Thomas Carlyle

It's simple ... go the extra mile and you will stand out from the crowd
Robin Crow

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and
should be undertaken with painstaking excellence
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can
Victor Kermit Kiam

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better
Pat Riley

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work
Aristotle

Productivity is determined not by work ... but by effective actions disguised as work
Doug Firebaugh

Believe in the best ... have a goal for the best,
never be satisfied with less than your best,
try your best, and in the long run things will turn out for the best
Henry Ford

Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends
Brian Tracy

Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is.
It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything.
Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best
Sir Laurence Olivier

Then give to the world the best you have, and the best will come back to you
Madeline Bridges

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular.
It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre
Uta Hagen

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't
Martin Van Buren

I have always struggled to achieve excellence.
One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something
without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying
Greg LeMond

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him
John Steinbeck

Celebrate what you've accomplished,
but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed
Mia Hamm

Strive for perfection in everything. Take the best that exists and make it better.
If it doesn't exist, create it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough
Henry Royce

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective;
it is the doing of the little things, the common duties, a little better and better
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

One that desires to excel should endeavour in those things
that are in themselves most excellent
Epictetus

Emphasize the best, and minimize the rest
Katherine Hammett

Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things.
Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery.
These models of excellence will inspire you and guide
you toward the fulfillment of your highest potential
Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way
Booker T. Washington

A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance
Tom Flores

Reality forms around your commitments.
The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it
Max Steingart

Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude
Colin L. Powell

Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement
if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day
Booker T. Washington

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to
reach your full potential ... these are the keys that
will unlock the door to personal excellence
Eddie Robinson

What we hope ever to do with ease,
we must learn first to do with diligence
Samuel Johnson

Be great in act, as you have been in thought
William Shakespeare

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing
Harriet Braiker

It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Champions keep playing until they get it right
Billie Jean King

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment to improve the world
Anne Frank

The will to win, the desire to succeed,
the urge to reach your full potential...these are the keys
that will unlock the door to personal excellence
Eddie Robinson

The starting point of all achievement is desire
Napoleon Hill

Excellence is an art won by training and habitation.
We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,
but rather we have those because we have acted rightly.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act but a habit
Aristotle

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess,
but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects
Alexis de Tocqueville

Always seek to excel yourself. Put yourself in competition with yourself each day.
Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it
Charles M. Sheldon

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs.
Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger.
If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves
Dale Carnegie

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it
W. Somerset Maugham

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment
to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour
Vincent Lombardi

There is nothing impossible to him who will try
Alexander the Great

Quality is not an act. It is a habit
Aristotle

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

He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.
Dream lofty dreams and as you dream so shall you become
James Allen

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure.
These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur
Vince Lombardi

Personal development is your springboard to personal excellence.
Ongoing, continuous, non-stop personal development literally assures you
that there is no limit to what you can accomplish
Brian Tracy

Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream.
This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away
Denis Waitley

Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do.
Brian Tracy

Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm.
Nothing great was ever achieved without it because
it gives any challenge or any occupation, no matter
how frightening or difficult, a new meaning.
Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of
mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles
Og Mandino

Strive for perfection in everything. Take the best that exists and make it better.
If it doesn't exist, create it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough
Henry Royce

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it
Margaret Thatcher

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts;
it's what you put into the practice
Eric Lindros

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort
John Ruskin

Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for
doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in the little things
Charles Simmons

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention,
sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution;
it represents the wise choice of many alternatives
Willa A. Foster

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach you full potential,
these are the keys that will unlock the door of personal excellence
Eddie Robinson

Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well,
you can do a bigger thing well, too
Joseph Storey

Some people have greatness thrust upon them.
Few have excellence thrust upon them, they achieve it.
They do not achieve it unwittingly by doing what comes naturally
and they don't stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves.
All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose
John William Gardner

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together
Vincent Van Gogh

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself
William Faulkner

Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things.
Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery.
These models of excellence will inspire you and guide
you toward the fulfilment of your highest potential
Tony Buzan

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit
Aristotle

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expect of you
Henry Ward Beecher

Remember every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it.
Autograph your work with excellence
Author Unknown

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to become better
Pat Riley

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it
George Halas

Excellence can be attained if you care more than others
think is wise, risk more than others think is safe,
dream more than others think is practical,
and expect more than others think is possible
Author Unknown

When someone does something well, applaud! You will make two people happy
Samuel Goldwyn

If your number one goal is to make sure that everyone likes and approves of you,
then you risk sacrificing your uniqueness and, therefore, your excellence
Author Unknown

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