Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life. — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
Maturity is the ability to harness your abilities and your energies and do more than is expected. The mature person refuses to… — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity. — William Blake Copy Share Image
To secure approval one must remain within the bounds of conventional mediocrity. Whatever lies beyond, whether it be greater insight and virtue,… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
After a period in which technocrats attempted to become stars and stars to become politicians, the political void has been occupied by… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Strive for perfection - never be content with mediocrity. You don't win until you conquer the little flaws. You don't beat these… — Bob Richards Copy Share Image
You don't need a hand-out, you need a hand-up! And that's what we need to portray: 'Look, do you want to live… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
“When my vision is numbed by apathy and narrowed by mediocrity, I can stand in the presence of great things and fail… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Watch, listen and learn. You can't know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“Where you are now is as a result of either your choice or someone’s choice. If you neglect the ideas of choosing… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Democracy is always, by nature and constitution, the triumph of mediocrity. — Indro Montanelli Copy Share Image
Decision is often the difference between greatness and mediocrity. In every man's life there comes a time when he must search for… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
“If I could understand that every ‘reality’ was once a ‘wish’, and that it moved from the latter to the former because… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Man's proper stature is not one of mediocrity, failure, frustration, or defeat, but one of achievement, strength, and nobility. In short, man… — Mike Mentzer Copy Share Image
Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
The #2 cause of mediocrity and unfulfilled potential is that 'most people' never dedicate time each day to learning, growing, and developing… — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
If you are going to be courageous, an example for all those who are ready to step into their power, then you… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
