"The noblest search is the search for excellence." -- Lyndon B. Johnson
"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." -- Aristotle
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. -- Warren G. Bennis
"Do what you love, love what you do, and deliver more than you promise." – Harvey Mackay
"The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited." -- Earl Nightingale
"Enthusiastic people experience life from the inside out." -- Nido Qubein
"I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom." -- Anatole France
"I can’t imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got." -- Walter Cronkite