If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Colin L. Powell

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Aristoteles

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T.S. Eliot

Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character”

T. Alan Armstrong

Never mistake motion for action.

Ernest Hemingway

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

Publilius Syrus

I never wanted to be a businessman, I just wanted to change the world.

Richard Branson

Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required.

Winston Churchill

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

Frank Tibolt

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

Oprah Winfrey

Failure to plan is planning to fail.

Winston Churchill

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't
own it, but you can use it. You can't keep
it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it
you can never get it back.

Harvey MacKay

Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

Harvey MacKay

People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.

Harvey MacKay

It isn't the people you fire who make your life miserable, it's the people you don't.

Harvey MacKay

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

Bertrand Russell

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Bertrand Russell

We would rather be ruined than changed,
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.

W. H. Auden

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.

 Peter Drucker

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. 

Francis Bacon

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you’ll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?'

Marcus Aurelius

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

 Marcus Aurelius

The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise -- with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

Abraham Lincoln

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Blaise Pascal