There are no office hours for champions. Paul Dietzel

• champion
• sports
• work
• excellence

Let no one or anything stand between you and the difficult task, let nothing deny you this rich chance to gain strength by adversity, confidence by mastery, success by deserving it. Do it better each time. Do it better than anyone else can do it. Harlow Curtice

• adversity
• excellence

If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all. Michelangelo Buonarroti

• excellence
• genius
• work

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch. Pope John Paul II

• fear
• excellence

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

• work
• excellence

It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame. Orison Marden

• excellence
• details

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. John Ruskin

• skill
• excellence
• love

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

• effort
• responsibility
• excellence

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

• self improvement
• excellence

People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it. Howard Newton

• excellence

A great man leaves clean work behind him and requires no sweeper up of the chips. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• excellence

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

• discipline
• habit
• excellence
• practice

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Marianne Williamson

• excellence
• potential

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. Henry Kaiser

• excellence
• work
• bragging

Only a mediocre person is always at his best. William Somerset Maugham

• mistakes
• perfection
• excellence

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

• excellence

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it. Alistair Cooke

• excellence

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor. Vince Lombardi

• commitment
• excellence

All men are born free and equal - free at least in their right to be different. Some people want to homogenize society everywhere. I'm against the homogenizers in art, in politics, in every walk of life. I want the cream to rise. Robert Frost

• excellence
• diversity

Never tolerate mediocrity. Larry Winget

• excellence

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Anything worth doing well is worth doing poorly at first. Anonymous

• excellence
• practice

The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way. Blaise Pascal

• criticism
• excellence

I always tell our athletes, "The qualities you develop now, the things we're going to insist upon, will be with you for life, and they'll always be as sound and as good as they are now." All we're really talking about is a commitment to excellence. Lou Holtz

• commitment
• excellence

The freedom to do your best means nothing unless you are willing to do your best. Colin Powell

• excellence

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living. David Jordan

• excellence

Select your work carefully and if you don't love what you're doing enough to want to be the best at it, get out! Flee from the boring or unsatisfying job as you would from a burning building. Working at something you don't care about is the very best way to waste your life. Remember, this life is not a rehearsal for something else. Brian Tracy

• job
• excellence
• passion
• enthusiasm

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception,it is a prevailing attitude. Colin Powell

• excellence

Great performers isolate remarkably specific aspects of what they do and focus on just those things until they are improved; then it's on to the next aspect. Geoff Colvin

• excellence
• practice

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If a man is called 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." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

• excellence

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process. Randall Munroe

• excellence
• practice
• greatness

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How do you grade yourself? It's important to know in advance, to make sure you're staying focused on what's honestly important to you, instead of doing what others think you should. Derek Sivers

• self improvement
• values
• excellence

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A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both. François-René de Chateaubriand

• work
• life
• fun
• excellence