Encouragement is 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.
