Excellence proverbs

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◆ Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.

- Gordon B. Hinckley99

◆ 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 Dickens99

◆ Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.

- Dolly Parton99

◆ We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

- Henry Ward Beecher99

◆ If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way

- Martin Luther King Jr.99

◆ Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.

- Hunter S. Thompson99

◆ If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

- John Wooden99

◆ To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.

- Michael Jordan99

◆ Do your best, and be a little better than you are.

- Gordon B. Hinckley99

◆ People of excellence go the extra mile to do what's right.

- Joel Osteen99

◆ I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

- Abraham Lincoln99

◆ Excellence is the Result of Caring more than others think is Wise, Risking more than others think is Safe, Dreaming more than others think is Practical, and Expecting more than others think is Possible.

- Ronnie Oldham99

◆ If you truly expect to realize your dreams, abandon the need for blanket approval. If conforming to everyone's expectations is the number one goal, you have sacrificed your uniqueness, and therefore your excellence.

- Hope Solo99

◆ Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.

- Robert A. Heinlein99

◆ No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

- Charles Kendall Adams98