Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably stood out as a man lacking more distinction than all the rest, and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was

Bless you, my boy. Have a horseshoe." "Thank you, sir. What should I do with it?" "Throw it." "Away?" "At that peg there. Then pick it up and throw it at this peg. It's a game, see? You get the horseshoe back.

Excellence - Take what you have and do the BEST with it.

If you are facing a difficult task don't put it off. If you do it will just keep tormenting you.

I think a lot of our bad habits are simply the result of being in too big a hurry to do a thing right to start with.

Martin Luther King, Jr. once said that "if a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

The world is not hungry for mediocrity. We really don't need a bunch of 4s and 5s running around, doing an average job in life. This world needs 10s.

bestselling and award-winning author Wanda E. Brunstetter is one of the founders of the Amish fiction genre. She has written close to 90 books translated in four languages. With over 10 million copies sold, Wanda's stories consistently earn spots on the nation's most prestigious

If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Indeed, the only purpose of the game is to prevent it from coming to an end, to keep everyone in play.

A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.