Set Higher Standards For YourSelf in 2010

"Set higher standards for you own performance than anyone around you, and it won't matter whether you have a tough boss or an easy one. It won't matter whether the competition is pushing you hard, because you'll be competing with yourself."
- Rick Pitino

"Every successful man I have heard of has done the best he could with conditions as he found them, and not waited until the next year for better."
- Edgar Howe

"Make the workmanship surpass the materials."
- Ovid, Poet

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience."
- Michael Eisner, executive

"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."
- Phillips Brooks


"As long as a person doesn't admit he's defeated, he is not defeated-he's just a little behind, and isn't through fighting."
- Darrell Royal, football coach

"You must do the things today that others will not do so that you can have the things tomorrow that others will not have."
- Anonymous

"There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life."
- Celine Dion, singer

"The most critical thing I think business leaders and future business leaders need to understand is to stay focused on the things that you can control and influence, and then execute, execute, execute."
- John Chambers, Cisco CEO

"Imagination grows by exercise and, contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young."
- Paul McCartney, musician

"As a coach, your high standards of performance, attention to detail and-above all-how hard you work set the stage for how your players perform."
- Don Shula, Football Coach

"A man learns to skate by staggering about making a fool of himself; indeed, he progresses in all things by making a fool of himself."
- George Bernard Shaw, Writer and Critic
(JACQUES' NOTE: What with the 2010 Winter Olympics going on in B.C., Canada---the above quote is quite timely---) :o)

"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not."
- Oprah Winfrey, talk-show host

"The moment you commit and quit holding back, all sorts of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, will rise up to help you. The simple act of commitment is a powerful magnet for help."
- Napoleon Hill, Pioneer of Personal Achievement Philosophy