Character Quote by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.

— Isaac Barrow

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

Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea that you…

— Eva Moskowitz

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

It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser…

— Theodore Roosevelt

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence…

— John W. Gardner

No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss…

— Theodore Roosevelt

It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, 'the greatest', but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.

— Sydney J. Harris

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of…

— Aristotle

“Excellence is an Art Won by Training and Habit. We do not act rightly Because we have Virtue and Excellence, But rather, we have…

— Aristotle

Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude

— Colin Powell

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

— Edmund Burke