~ 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. ~

~ Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. ~

~ Joy exists only in self-acceptance. Seek perfect acceptance, not a perfect life. ~

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

~ Paint a masterpiece daily. Always autograph your work with excellence. ~

~ Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. ~

~ Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way. ~

~ All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. ~

~ No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation. ~

~ Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hall-mark of excellence. ~

~ Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. ~

~ The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work. ~

~ All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. ~

~ Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. ~

~ 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. ~