Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.
Interpretation
Striving for excellence is essential to avoid settling for mediocrity.
The quote emphasizes the importance of having high aspirations and making a strong commitment to achieving excellence in any endeavor. It suggests that anything less than this commitment will result in comfortable mediocrity, which is not a worthy goal.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire students to aim for higher academic achievements.
Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal attainment. Without goals, you simply drift and flow on the currents of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target.
Plan your work and work your plan. Decide in advance exactly how you are going to get from where you are to where you want to go.
Rewrite your major goals every day, in the present tense, exactly as if they already existed
Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'
Write while the heat is in you. The write who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. To achieve something you've never achieved before, you must become someone you've never been before.
Your choice of people to associate with, both personally and business-wise, is one of the most important choices you make. If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.
I was determined that with perseverance and faith, at some point, someone would say, 'This girl has talent,' and would cast me in something meaningful.
Bring into play the almighty power within you, so that on the stage of life you can fulfill your high destined role.
Raising your level of performance requires a proper mentality and meaning from within. This gives you the ability and drive to work on the things necessary to go to a higher level. When people ask me how to raise their level of performance, the first thing I ask is, How important is it to you?
I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
Kids are the ultimate form of motivation. They're watching. They're mimicking. They're an extension of you. So you have to win.
You have the choice to create the life your heart is yearning to live.
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