Handpicked Quotes on Excellence and Chutzpah
The only easy day was yesterday.
—Navy SEALs
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.
—E.B. White
If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way.
—Lance Armstrong
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
—Maya Angelou
For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.
—Aristotle
My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
—Stephen Hawking
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
—William Faulkner
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
—Sidney J. Harris
Wild cats look their best when they're hungry. So do you.
—Ori Hofmekler
The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
—John N. Mitchell
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
—Winston Churchill
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
—Amelia Earhart
Excess, upon occasion can be exhilarating, because it prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
—Somerset Maugham
Creativity is a collateral of universal curiosity.
—Alexander Becker
If you want to run, then run a mile. If you want to experience another life, run a marathon.
—Emil Zatopek
We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
—Chuck Palahniuk
Talking about art is like dancing about architecture.
—David Bowie
I want what all men want. I just want it more.
—Achill
The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.
—Robin Sharma
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.
—Norman Vincent Peale
It's not the having, it's the getting.
—Elizabeth Taylor
Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
—Jim Rohn
There is no avoiding war, it can only be postponed to the advantage of your enemy.
—Niccolo Machiavelli
Miss one workout and you will know it. Miss two and your friends will know it. Miss three and your enemies will know it.
Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win.
—Tom Fleming
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
—Kahlil Gibran
When you have 70% of what you need to act, it's time to act now. Waiting for that last 30% rarely changes the outcome, and you will miss opportunities while you wait.
—Michael Powell
There is no limit to the good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
—General George C. Marshall
For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes.
—Dag Hammarskjold
Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay its price.
—Sun Tzu
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.
—Suzuki
Enjoy your pain, you've earned it.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight -- it's the size of the fight in the dog.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
—Oscar Wilde
Do only one thing, that nobody will ever forget -- every day.
—Alexander Becker
I can only show you the door. You're the one that has to walk through it.
—Morpheus
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
—Amelia Earhart
Pain is weakness leaving the body.
—Navy SEALs
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
—Booker T. Washington
I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.
—Pablo Picasso
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
—Maya Angelou
No one ever died from wanting too much.
—Garbage
There's no point in living, if you can't feel the life.
—Garbage
The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.
—Julius Cesar
The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
—Steve Jobs
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
—Henry A. Kissinger
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
—Confucius
First rule of business, protect your investment.
—Etiquette of the Banker
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
—Chinese Proverb
Never run from anything immortal, it only attracts their attention.
—The Unicorn
The only way to get smarter is by playing a smarter opponent.
—Fundamentals of Chess
Excellence -- the result of caring more than others think is wise, risking more than others think is safe, dreaming more than others think is practical, and expecting more than others think is possible.
You don't know what you can get away with until you try.
He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened. He who conquers others has physical strength. He who conquers himself is strong.
—Tao-te Chin
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
—Peter Drucker
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint.
—Albert Schweitzer
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
—Jean Giraudoux
Some are destined to succeed, others are determined to.
—Swami Tejomayananda
Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
—Howard Aiken
Imagine to be, always, one second ahead.
—Alexander Becker
How much can you possibly know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?
—Tyler Durden
There is no such thing as problems, only situations.
—Avi and Zach
Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
—Chuck Close
Whatever seems impossible is just not yet important enough.
—Alexander Becker
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it.
—Epictetus
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