“In every kind of endeavor, there are ample opportunities for extra effort. Grab those opportunities, embrace that extra effort and transform ordinary mediocrity into bright and shining excellence.” KindOpportunityEffortOrdinaryEmbraceShiningExcellenceExtrasEndeavorMediocrityExtra Effort Author:Ralph Marston
“Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education.” ChoicesOpportunityExcellence Author:Mitt Romney
“Competition can be viewed in two ways. It can be viewed in a negative light and be seen as destructive, but one can also have the view that it is competition that drives people and institutions to higher and higher levels of excellence and, therefore, to more and more opportunity.” PeopleWayTwoLightOpportunityLevelsViewsHigherNegativeInstitutionsCompetitionExcellenceDestructiveTwo WaysHigher Level Author:Lee R. Raymond
“Morandi suggests we are all single in this world, hoping for independent repose. But our best opportunity for a community of excellence depends upon a collection of enlightened individuals.” WorldOpportunityIndividualCommunityThis WorldDependsIndependentExcellenceCollectionsEnlightenedReposeBest Opportunity Author:Wayne Thiebaud
“Hard work is not punishment. Hard work is the price of admission for the opportunity to reach sustained excellence” HardMotivationalOpportunityWorkHard WorkBasketballExcellenceCoachesPunishmentReachingNbaPaymentAdmissionMotivational WorkHard Work Pays Off Author:Jay Bilas
“It's a great challenge to be better than your opportunities.” OpportunityChallengesExcellence Author:Sarah Jessica Parker
“Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon.” MenNeedsArtUseArtistCoursesOpportunityEffortStruggleHe ManDisciplineCircumstancesArt IsLaborOvercomingDifficultyExcellencePatientActiveLondonImpressionParisRomePassiveGreat ArtModeratesGreat ArtistManlyAdverseEminenceThrifty Author:George Stillman Hillard
“I was one of two first cultural exchange artists been allowed to go to the West. I knew it was such a rare opportunity and I had to treasure it by giving my utter most to achieve excellence.” GivingFirstsTwoArtistOpportunityAchieveExcellenceWestTreasureCultural ExchangeRare Opportunities Author:Li Cunxin
“It is not sufficiently considered in the hour of exultation, that all human excellence is comparative; that no man performs much but in proportion to what other accomplish, or to the time and opportunities which have been allowed him.” MenHumansHas BeensSuccessOpportunityHoursAchievementExcellenceAccomplishProportion Author:Samuel Butler