Quotes to Inspire you for Life

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way

Booker T. Washington

 

A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance

Tom Flores

 

Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude

Colin L. Powell

 

Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement

if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day

Booker T. Washington

 

What we hope ever to do with ease,

we must learn first to do with diligence

Samuel Johnson

 

Be great in act, as you have been in thought

William Shakespeare

 

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing

Harriet Braiker

 

It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 

Champions keep playing until they get it right

Billie Jean King

 

The will to win, the desire to succeed,

the urge to reach your full potential...these are the keys

that will unlock the door to personal excellence

Eddie Robinson

 

The starting point of all achievement is desire

Napoleon Hill

 

Excellence is an art won by training and habitation.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act but a habit .

Aristotle

 

Always seek to excel yourself. Put yourself in competition with yourself each day.

Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it .

Charles M. Sheldon

 

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs.

Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger.

If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves .

Dale Carnegie

 

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment

to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour

Vincent Lombardi 

Happy and Content Farmer (Inspirational Story)

There was a farmer in Africa who was happy and content. He was happy because he was content. He was content because he was happy.One day a wise man came to him and told him about the glory of diamonds and the power that goes along with them. The wise man said, “If you had a diamond the size of your thumb, you could have your own city. If you had a diamond the size of your fist, you could probably own your own country.” And then he went away.

That night the farmer couldn’t sleep. He was unhappy and he was discontent. He was unhappy because he was discontent and discontent because he was unhappy. The next morning he made arrangements to sell off his farm, took care of his family and went in search of diamonds.
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He looked all over Africa and couldn’t find any. He looked all through Europe and couldn’t find any. When he got to Spain, he was emotionally, physically and financially broke. He got so disheartened that he threw himself into the Barcelona River and committed suicide.
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Back home, the person who had bought his farm was watering the camels at a stream that ran through the farm. Across the stream, the rays of the morning sun hit a stone and made it sparkle like a rainbow. He thought it would look good on the mantle piece. He picked up the stone and put it in the living room. That afternoon the wise man came and saw the stone sparkling. He asked, “Is Hafiz back?” The new owner said, “No, why do you ask?” The wise man said, “Because that is a diamond. I recognize one when I see one.”
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The man said, no, that’s just a stone I picked up from the stream. Come, I’ll show you. There are many more.” They went and picked some samples and sent them for analysis. Sure enough, the stones were diamonds. They found that the farm was indeed covered with acres and acres of diamonds.

What is the moral of this story? There are five morals:

1. When our attitude is right, we realize that we are all walking on acres and acres of diamonds. Opportunity is always under our feet. We don’t have to go anywhere. All we need to do is recognize it.

2. The grass on the other side always looks greener.

3. While we are dyeing the grass on the other side, there are others who are dyeing the grass on our side. They would be happy to trade places with us.

4. When people don’t know how to recognize opportunity, they complain of noise when it knocks.

5. The same opportunity never knocks twice. The next one may be better or worse, but it is never the same one.

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