Do your best, and be a little better than you are.

Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent.

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Meekness implies a spirit of gratitude as opposed to an attitude of self-sufficiency, an acknowledgement of a greater power beyond oneself, a recognition of God, and an acceptance of his commandments.