"If you want to take your mission in life to the next level, if you're stuck and you don't know how to rise, don't look outside yourself. Look inside. Don't let your fears keep you mired in the crowd. Abolish your fears and raise your commitment level to the point of no return, and I guarantee you that the Champion Within will burst forth to propel you toward victory."

Jenner, Bruce on commitment
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"Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision."

Ali, Muhammad on winners and winning
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"Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do."

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y on excellence
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"Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated."

Yahl, J. on perfection
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"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."

Washington, Booker T. on excellence
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"Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better."

Riley, Pat on excellence
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"The noblest search is the search for excellence."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on excellence
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"Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on excellence   

"Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."

Gardner, John W. on excellence
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"A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning."

Riley, Pat on motivation
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"We talk on principal, but act on motivation."

Landor, Walter Savage on motivation
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"There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning."

Riley, Pat on motivation
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"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing."

Braiker, Harriet on motivation
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"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."

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

Aristotle on habit
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"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work."

Watson, Thomas J. on excellence
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"Advice from a veteran trapeze performer: Throw your heart over the bars and your body will follow."

Unknown, Source on art   

"Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something."

Zappa, Frank on music   

"Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve."

Franklin, Benjamin on resolution