The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of…

The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. But…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The desire for excellence becomes a reality when an individual sets a standard, reach it and surpass it consistently.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it.

— Eric Hoffer

He who governs by his moral excellence may be compared to the Pole star which abides in its place while all other stars bow…

— Proverb

In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.

— Tacitus

Pope has elegantly said a perfect woman's but a softer man. And if we take in the consideration, that there can be but one…

— Catharine Macaulay

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

— Aristotle

Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.

— Charles Sumner

Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

— Harriet Martineau

Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of…

— Aristotle

Honor is truly sacred, but holds a lower rank in the scale of moral excellence than virtue. Indeed the former is part of the…

— John Adams

I think I would rather live on the verge of falling and let my security be in the all-sufficiency of the grace of God…

— Rich Mullins

“Moral excellence does not consist in aggregating pleasures and pains but in aligning them, so that we delight in noble things and take pain…

— Michael J. Sandel

The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to…

— Aristotle