Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

Uncommon valor was a common virtue.