20 TIPS FOR A STUNNINGLY GREAT LIFE

“I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that’s how I operate my life.”

~ Oprah Winfrey

“We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent. “

~ Barack Obama

“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.”

~ Anonymous

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

We all want to be extraordinary and we all just want to fit in. Unfortunately, extraordinary people rarely fit in.”

~ Sebastyne Young

“If you truly expect to realize your dreams, abandon the need for blanket approval. If conforming to everyone’s expectations is the number one goal, you have sacrificed your uniqueness, and therefore your excellence.”

~ Hope Solo

Imagine you’re on your deathbed—and standing around your bed are the ghosts representing your unfilled potential. The ghosts of the ideas you never acted on. The ghosts of the talents you didn’t use. And they’re standing around your bed. Angry. Disappointed. Upset. “We came to you because you could have brought us to life,” they say. “And now we go to the grave together.” So I ask you today: How many ghosts are going to be around your bed when your time comes?

~ Les Brown

“By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.”

~ Voltaire