To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.

Bathing is not negotiable! So is brushing your teeth and washing your underwear, so that you always have a fresh inviting scent around you. People should want to be around you, not avoid you because...

Behaviours and habits are therefore the end result of the entire value chain and cannot be changed in a sustainable manner by scratching the surface – you have to dig deeper. This is why jail...

There remains unique questions calling for a unique mission like yours to answer – and that is your key to significance. Find them and be the answer.

You need to change the questions you ask yourself and of your situations, in order to change the trajectory of your life. These are questions that will help you define and refine your purpose.

What makes you succeed must be possessed where it cannot be taken away. The internal capacity to succeed is more important than the external and temporal manifestation of success.

Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.

It’s excellence in leadership when everyone wants to manufacture a black shoe and you manufacture a designer black shoe with gold medal on top. Do something new; do something better!

It is this type of leadership that promotes academic excellence in the public schools of Alabama.

The best posture you can adopt when pursuing your goals is neither to stand nor sit. The best position is to STANDOUT! Everyone may be sitting; but don’t sit! Many people may be standing; but...

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don’t isolate.

Leadership is bringing people into new realms of excellence and challenging them to become distinguished in their chosen field.

well-functioning markets have no innate tendency to promote excellence in any form. They offer no resistance to forces making for a descent into cultural barbarity or moral depravity.

Be a reflection of excellence.

What matters more than where you are is the direction you are heading.

You first compete with yourself before competing against others; if you cannot beat your last best result, do not be surprised if it seems difficult to compete against external competitors.

The challenge therefore, as you strive for success, is to make it a habit to live your life on purpose. You must learn to make deliberate plans and then practice the art and science of...

It will take faith, to know success can still be attained regardless of unfairness or disadvantages availed by any system you operate within.

Personal growth by tackling the ‘big-picture” through focusing on the things you have power to influence is more effective and less stressful.

Most of the things to guarantee your death have already been done so you can spend the rest of your time focusing on the things that can guarantee your success and happiness.

In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman.

Never allow your desires to lead you away from God; allow nothing else to control you other than God and His Word. No matter what you see or pass through, don’t allow them to define...

Many a time, we live life without having access to the thoughts of how the hours of yesterday were spent. This comes to play because of lack of self-analysis and does not help in any...

When you come up a bit short on excellence, you still win. When you strive for perfect, you’re just never quite good enough.

has fostered a program that pursues excellence on and off the field. Actually, let me amend that: It pursues excellence on the field and pursues the best legal representation money can buy off the field.

We must cooperate to turn this country around; otherwise there will be no more future to speak of for our children.

We fully intend to take it to new levels of excellence,

The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But when I think about it practically, I am glad it’s a struggle. I...

Don’t let the fact you haven’t done something before convince you that you can’t do it, or that it cannot be done perfectly the first time you try your hand at it.

Don’t do things or act out your posture and gestures to impress people, just be yourself and portray the confident ‘you’ with that high self-esteem. So relax because you are ‘you’. Be sincere, be authentic....

First accept the reality that we are all prejudiced because we have things and issues we have biases towards or against, based on our beliefs, thoughts and experiences. Accept that it is possible to differ...

Have a clear plan or strategy to translate your success philosophy into desired results. Adopt an effective work ethic, with a laser-focus and requisite execution strategies to produce results.

Those who succeed after a rare opportunity, only succeed on the back of a plan they already had or one they craft and begin to pursue after receiving the windfall.

We ran a fair program before. But the standard of excellence is higher. The quality is higher.

There are no intermediaries when it comes to matters of change. Anyone who is not for change is against it. Anyone who is against change is an enemy of nature!

Make it a promise to be all that you must be. When you dream of reaching the 100th step; take the 99th as the beginning of your journey and you will go beyond the 101st!

Make a plural hey while the singular sun is up there. Not just the hey, but the best hey. Excellence should be your priority!

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.

If you really want to get good at anything, you’ve got to work at it for ten thousand hours.

As I tell my children, ‘If you are going to do something, do your best while you’re doing it.

Supreme excellence in warfare consists of subduing the enemy without fighting.

Generate great impressions. This is a direct result of setting higher standards for yourself in your speech, dress, living environment, grooming, etiquette, study, research and commitment.

Identify and replace any limiting deep-rooted beliefs that are like a solid mental prison, including thoughts like, ‘I’m not worthy,’ ‘I can’t do this,’ ‘I’m too old to start,’ ‘I don’t have the qualification or...

Self-discovery is a journey of questioning yourself.

We can only continue to promote invention, creativity and success by asking of ourselves, our situations and problems some key questions. What questions are you asking today?

When success is internalized, no situation, no matter how bad, can convince you that you will not be able to attain your goal. You become adamant and refuse to give up.

Excellence is not a success but a persistent pursuit of perfection.

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

Now is the time to enliven, ennoble and enrich your life’s tapestry.

Those who distinguish themselves in what they do and become disinct always score distinction. Don’t follow the crowd. Distinguish yourself with a special commitment and you will excel.