Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
~Malcom Forbes

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
~B. F. Skinner

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.
~Lord Chesterfield

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. *
~Aristotle

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek. *
~Mario Andretti

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
~Vince Lombardi

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
~Maureen Dowd

Hold yourself for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you.
~Henry Ward Beecher

If you can't be a pine on top of the hill,
Be a scrub in the valley -but be
The best little scrub by the side of the rill;
Be a bush, if you can't be a tree.

If you can't be a bush, be a bit of the grass,
And some highway happier make;
If you can't be a muskie, then just be a bass -
But the liveliest bass in the lake!

We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew,
There's something for all of us here.
There's big work to do and there's lesser to do
And the task we must be do is the near.

If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail,
If you can't be the sun, be a star;
It isn't by size that you win or you fail -
Be the best of whatever you are