• Encouragement isa a necessary part of supervision.
• Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
• If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
• Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level we cannot hope to achieve a high level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure.
• Excellence and size are fundamentally incompatible.
• Even to a wicked man a divinity gives wealth, Cyrnus, but to few men comes the gift of excellence.
• Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
• You must motivate yourself EVERYDAY!
• In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead; the one being an innate desire of pleasure; the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence.
• It is hard to be truly excellent, four-square in hand and foot and mind, formed without blemish.
• Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge.
• But when we get enough people who don't care, and who don't accept personal responsibility for high ethical standards, our organization gets the "M" disease. Mediocrity. Anybody in the place can be a carrier. By the same token, every individual can carry the cure: the ethics of excellence.
• We need timeless principles to steer by in running our organizations and building our personal careers. We need high standards . . . the ethics of excellence.
• Excellence calls for character . . . integrity . . . fairness . . . honesty . . . a determination to do what's right. High ethical standards, across the board.
• Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.
• Excellent firms don't believe in excellence — only in constant improvement and constant change.
• The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run ever faster if encouraged.
• Am I motivated by what I really want out of life — or am I mass-motivated?
• There is no excellence anywhere without labor. We would think a man foolish indeed who would say, "l am willing that my business should prosper, or that my farm should yield plentifully, but I'll not stir a peg." But he is no more foolish than the man who says, "I am willing that God should bless me abundantly, but I shall not do anything toward that end myself." We must consistently rely upon the help of the Lord, but we will not make any progress or meet with any success unless we put forth an earnest effort.
• Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.
• What ere thou art, act well thy part.

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I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
Gale Sayers

Where there's a will there's a way.
English Proverb

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.
Denis Waitley

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Richard B. Sheridan

If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen.
Cher

A determined person will do more with a pen and paper, than a lazy person will accomplish with a personal computer.
Catherine Pulsifer

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
Tommy Lasorda

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Rosalyn Carter

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Alexander Graham Bell

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Don't let go of your dreams. If you have determination and belief in your dreams, you will succeed in spite of your desire to let go.
Catherine Pulsifer

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
Vince Lombardi

It was courage, faith, endurance and a dogged determination to surmount all obstacles that built this bridge.
John J. Watson

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.
Og Mandino

Within each of us is a hidden store of determination. Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost.
Roger Dawson

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.
Anthony Robbins

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.
Charles De Gaulle

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
Dr. Thomas Fuller

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
Charles Simmons

Those who don't understand determination call determination stubbornness or too driven. To be determined is to see it through!
Catherine Pulsifer

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Og Mandino

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.
George Lorimer

We will either find a way, or make one!
Hannibal

Never stop. One stops as soon as something is about to happen.
Peter Brock

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