#ellen

Be driven with purpose. Be relentless in your alignment with excellence. Pay no mind to the disimpassioned impotent haters. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#excellence #haters #life #purpose #success

You unlock the door to greater levels of excellence and success when you accept who you are. It is from the point of acceptance that we can create a masterful life. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#excellence #life #success #experience

You don't get drown by falling into a river. You get drown by remaining there. Falling accidentally and rising immediately was what distinguished Thomas Edison and Abraham Lincoln from the rest. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#distinct #distinguish #don-t-quit #drown #excellence

Ellen rose to her feet. Jack thought for a moment she was going to storm out. Instead, she picked up the pitcher of hot fudge and poured the contents onto Leesha Middleton's pink jeans and fuzzy white sweater. "Oops." Ellen sat down again and went back to eating her ice cream. Leesha screamed, a sound that could be heard in Canada. Every eye in Corcoran's was on her. She slid out of the booth and swiped ineffectually at her jeans with a napkin.Then she plucked at her ruined sweater with her thumb and forefinger. "You...you...I can't believe you did that!" Ellen licked whipped cream from the back of her spoon and looked at Leesha calmly. Leesha was tiny, but she seemed to expand, like an amphibian taking on air, then she drew herself up and retrieved her pink leather purse from the bench next to Jack. It was smeared with fudge too. "You'll pay for that, I promise you," she said to Ellen in a voice that raised the gooseflesh on Jack's neck. Then she turned and left. For a moment, Corcoran's was totally silent. Ellen looked across the table at Jack's sundae. "Are you going to finish that? ↗

— Cinda Williams Chima

#fudge #humor #humor

I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys? ↗

— Adriana Trigiani

#excellence #standards #life

I’m speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist has these. A great chef. A great master of tea. There’s powerful kung fu in a well-built house or an eloquent letter, but the limit of your imagination is bones breaking and bullets flying. ↗

— Scott Lynch

#kung-fu #life-lessons #imagination

Real love finds you once, if you're lucky. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#ellen-hopkins #life #living #love #luck

To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance. ↗

— Criss Jami

#envious #envy #excellence #greatness #jealous

We must be the ones to re-define the world class standards of excellence ↗

— Fela Durotoye

#leadership #nigeria #standards #leadership

My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#excellence #life