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Carolyn Smagalski
Self Mastery
Founder - Editor - Host
As a reminder of your commitment to the realization of your
dreams, take these quotations on excellence with you in your
thoughts. Think about them daily, so that they become part of
your habitual thought process. Form good thought habits,
because thoughts are what become concrete in your world.
"Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful
individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all
that was expected of them and a little bit more." said A. Lou
Vickery.
Abraham Lincoln wrote, I never had a policy; I have just tried
to do my very best each and every day."
Andrew Carnegie, American Industrialst , too, wrote, "Do not
look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your
best."
Even back in 350 B.C., Aristotle was saying the same thing:
"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."
"Do more than you're supposed to do and you can have or be or
do anything you want," wrote Bill Sands.
Channing Pollock, American actor put it in perspective: "No
matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem,
if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead
us to better things."
"You must be resolutely determined that whatever you do shall
always be the best of which you are capable," said Charles E.
Popplestone.
And Charles Francis Adams, (1807-1866) American statesman and
diplomat wrote, "No one ever attains very eminent success by
simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and
excellence of what is over and above the required, that
determines the greatness of ultimate distinction."
Be excellent, today, and every day.
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