Definition of Excellence

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Excellence

The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.

An excellent or valuable quality; that by which any one excels or is eminent; a virtue.

A title of honor or respect; -- more common in the form excellency.

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Excellence Quotations

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
Barack Obama

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Vince Lombardi

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Vince Lombardi

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Confucius

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Aristotle

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
Aristotle

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
Aristotle

Excellence Translations

excellence in Latin is praestantia prestantia, virtus, excellentia
excellence in Norwegian is fortreffelighet
excellence in Spanish is excelencia

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