Excellence is to keep beating your own standards every day. If you don’t have a standard for yourself, you have no records to beat; and if you don’t have any record to beat, you can’t...

We are in an international marketplace for talent, and American colleges and universities need to be able to attract students and faculty from around the world if we want to sustain our excellence.

Ordinary is an insult to excellence.

If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?

You’ve baked a really lovely cake, but then you’ve used dog shit for frosting.

Leaders are readers, disciples want to be taught and everyone has gifts within that need to be coached to excellence.

Anyone who can’t compete only with himself defeats the very first and the basic purpose of doing anything really excellent.

Build relationships and friendships by finding common experiences or interests instead of getting discouraged by noticeable differences.

When your own success shocks you, you fail to sustain it and it becomes a curse instead of a blessing. Think through issues and make considerations before you encounter the real situation. Companies invest billions...

How positive and empowering is it, especially in the face of adversity?

me, myself and I” committee meets and passes transformational resolutions.

I don’t settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?

Spark the dreams you have with integrity and honesty. It’s gonna catch up with excellence if you make it revive in truthfulness in the midst of this world of falsehood!

All you need is a little hope in order cope in times of failure, and be able to try again with a better intelligence for excellence!

You don’t get drown by falling into a river. You get drown by remaining there. Falling accidentally and rising immediately was what distinguished Thomas Edison and Abraham Lincoln from the rest.

You are people with a present and with a future. Don’t muff the ball. Be excellent.

People of excellence go the extra mile to do what’s right.

Great men are made in the crucible of experiences

We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them.

A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

No matter how much I care for you, you have to do your own growing – it’s your personal responsibility. Muscles do not grow by reading but by lifting weights. Exam grades do not improve...

Your values, as guiding principles, will influence your attitude towards yourself, life, other people, work and even challenges or success itself. Your values are a product of your beliefs.

If you check your personal blind spots, you can be able to guard against focusing on what you cannot do, but reduce the areas of weakness by taking their space with more of your strengths.

Do not plan to die, do not plan for the death of your name or your influence – rather, plan for the resting of a life well lived. Make an eternal mark.

Your success must never be left to others. You must be able to visualize it and see it through your own eyes, whilst others assist you to see it better and make it clearer.

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.

In any profession, you will be respected if you are good at your job – not because you are good at talking about your beliefs. It may be quite irrational, but the fact is that,...

Take distinct steps and exploits. Those who are distinct and distinguished always score distinction. Go there, be there and stay there.

Seeking excellence means choosing to forge your own sword to cut through the limitations of your life…

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way

Do you know invisible determination and effort will always accomplish visible distinction and excellence?

I am a man of simple tastes easily satisfied with the best

Be driven with purpose. Be relentless in your alignment with excellence. Pay no mind to the disimpassioned impotent haters.

PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. The editor of an English magazine having received a letter pointing out the...

Mirror, mirror in my mind, am I still on course to succeed in life?

Call your personal board now and discuss the important questions. You cannot invent, re-invent or show creative brilliance without asking pertinent questions. You must demand answers from your life, from your present circumstances or from...

The truth is that we all have what it takes to succeed and the fact is that not everyone will attain what they define success to be.

There should be a healthy ‘stubbornness’, assertiveness and confidence that comes from knowledge of your clear vision, mission, values and personal brand.

As you grow and develop your talent and skill – you must begin to create a demand for what you possess as a personal brand.

It’s better to do one thing well than ten things poorly.

I loved buildings that had grown silently with the centuries, catching the best of each generation while time curbed the artist’s pride and the philistine’s vulgarity and repaired the clumsiness of the dull workman.

Don’t see what you have achieved yesterday with the same pleasure eyes you used to see it when it was done by you”. Look forward and do better than you did earlier!

Anything short of excellence is merely an excuse.

The truth is the very definition of excellence.

A true leader does not derive power from his position, but from his ethics, from people’s love for him, and from his knowledge, education and excellence in his field of work.

Either find a way, or make one….You can bend but you can never break if you want to achieve excellence.

You have the ability to shine and make a mark in some field. Your job is to find your niche, excel and build a lasting legacy.

Success is not a process of accumulating wealth, building mass relationship or collecting things in excess, but developing, excelling, fostering and growing the happiness for self and others without recess to treat it as the...

If you are not sure or you don’t know something, politely ask. Asking is not a sign of being daft, but of confidence.

Whilst your memory is as sharp as the most reliable computer, it is always wiser to write things down. Pre-meditation helps the refining process, taking out the undesirable elements from a dream or vision, even...