"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."
(Steve Roland Prefontaine)

"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."
(William Blake)

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit."
(Aristotle)

"Whatever you are, be a good one."
(Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65)

"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat."
(Deng Xiao Ping)