Oliver Goldsmith: To aim at excellence, our reputation, our friends, and our all, must be…
To aim at excellence, our reputation, our friends, and our all, must be ventured; by aiming only at mediocrity, we run no risk, and we do little service.
In today’s wordsTo aim at excellence, we have to risk our reputation, our friends, and everything; by aiming only at mediocrity, we risk nothing and do little good.
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- When you don’t know your eternal purpose, you will run away from giants you were meant to defeat and fights God made you to win.
- Excellence is not always harder, it just sometimes takes longer.
- How you do anything is how you do everything. "Whatever you do, do it heartily unto God, knowing you will be rewarded by Him." (Colossians 3:22,23)
- Go after what it is that creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself to handle the stress that follows.
- Do your work, respecting the excellence of the work, and not its acceptableness.