Hold yourself to a higher standard than anybody else expects of you.
Maintain personal standards of excellence that exceed external expectations, pursuing higher integrity than others might demand.
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I do the very best I know how—the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out r…
— Abraham Lincoln
Excellence is not being the best; it is doing your best.
— Unknown
The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.
— William Arthur Ward
It's a funny thing about life: If you refuse to accept anything but the very best, you will often get it.
— W. Somerset Maugham
If I had given you any parting advice it would, I think, all have been comprised in this one sentence: to live up always…
— Hannah Whitall Smith
The program of an elementary school graduation exercise con- cluded with a rendering of the hymn “Amazing Grace” by one …
