I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

Action is more generally understood than words.

The greatest tie of all is language.... Words are the only things that last for ever. The most tremendous monuments or prodigies of engineering crumble under the hand of Time. The Pyramids moulder, the bridges rust, the canals fill up, grass covers the railway track; but words spoken two or three thousand years ago remain with us now, not as mere relics of the past, but with all their pristine vital force.

It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words.