Principled

“Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.”

― Confucius

“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Obey the principles without being bound by them.”

― Bruce Lee

“The intelligent have plans; the wise have principles.”

― Raheel Farooq

“He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own. ”
― Aesop

“Bread for me is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.”

― Nikolai A. Berdyaev

“How to win in life:

1 work hard
2 complain less
3 listen more
4 try, learn, grow
5 don't let people tell you it cant be done
6 make no excuses”
― Germany Kent

“Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means.”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Principles don't have borders.”

― Alisha Rai, Wrong to Need You

“Ethics are the things that say, 'Don’t stick your finger in the socket.' The world says, 'It’s okay
because we’ve shut off the electricity.' And at the point that we’ve chosen to listen to the world
and ignore our ethics, we say, 'I’m having a really hard time getting back up.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Hard work is one of the greatest principles which I have carefully guided my life by.”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance
“Learn to do everything with speed to be efficient and effective”
― Sunday Adelaja
“Be strategic and purposeful in whatever you do”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Purposefully dedicating time into developing yourself is one of the keys to being effective in life”
― Sunday Adelaja
Self-Excellence
“Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way”

― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.”

― Hunter S. Thompson

“I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“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
“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
― Booker T. Washington
“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because
this is our life.”
― Steve Jobs

“You cannot score a goal when you are sitting on the bench. To do so, you have to dress up and
enter the game.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Do ordinary things extraordinarily well.”

― Gregg Harris

“There is a kind of excellence in me and you—born in us—and it cannot live in shame.”

― Sophocles, Electra

“Be a character of excellence, not excuses”

― Janna Cachola
“Excellence is a direct result of an extra effort.”
― Gift Gugu Mona
“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is
expected.”
― Steve Jobs

“Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good
for men, both individually and collectively.”
― Socrates, Apology

“The excellent person manages himself. He will not allow the environment to manage him.”
― Rex Resurreccion, Called To Excel

“Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is
vulgar and ordinary.”
― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments