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"Always seek to excel yourself. Put yourself in competition with yourself each day." -- Charles M. Sheldon "Make your own recovery the first priority in your life." -- Robin Norwood "It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965) "A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it." -- Alistair Cooke "Excellence can be obtained if you care more than others think is wise, risk more than others think is safe, dream more than others think is practical, expect more than others think is possible." -- Vince Lombardi "One person has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the person who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life." -- Edward B. Butler "If you don’t seek perfection, you can never reach excellence." -- Don Shula "Hitch your wagon to a star." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot . . . and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." -- Michael Jordan "How much of ourselves do we keep in the shadows, afraid of what others may think, of judgment, of scrutiny? What might happen if we let the light bathe us, expose our vulnerability, allow intimacy to take center stage, if only for a brief moment? What would they see?" -- Ridgely Goldsborough "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." -- Charles Kendall Adams "I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best." -- Helen Keller "Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve!" -- Mary Kay Ash "The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor." -- Vince Lombardi "He who would search for pearls must dive below." -- John Dryden "Adversity causes some men to break, others to break records." -- William A. Ward "If you consistently do the best you can, with integrity, you will regret less and move forward with greater ease." -- Brian Koslow "It's never crowded along the extra mile." --  Wayne Dyer "I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them." --  Pablo Picasso "The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible." -- Arthur C. Clarke "Go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will see farther." -- Orison Swett Marden "For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return." -- Leonardo da Vinci "We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility." -- Albert Einstein "I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it." -- Pablo Picasso "Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." -- Ronald E. Osborn