1. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose. John W. Gardner

2. There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish. Max L. Lucado

3. Hit the ball over the fence and you can take your time going around the bases. John W. Raper

4. When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. Helen Keller

5. Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable; however, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. Lord Chesterfield

6. All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. Benedict Spinoza

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

8. To get the best out of a man go to what is best in him. Daniel Considine

9. Think of failure as excellence-in-training: It shows you have the courage to try and, when you pick yourself up, to start again. Source Unknown

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

11. If I had given you any parting advice it would, I think, all have been comprised in this one sentence: to live up always to the best and highest you know. Hannah Whithall Smith

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

13. 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 Beecher

14. Good is not good where better is expected. Sir Thomas Fuller

15. Strive for excellence, not perfection. H. Jackson Brown Jr.

16. Those who attain to any excellence spend life in some one single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained on easier terms. Samuel Johnson