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Excellence may refer to:

27 QUOTES
"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift."
— Steve Prefontaine
"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best."
— St. Jerome
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
— Aristotle
"Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."
— Sun Tzu
"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."
— Aristotle
"Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not."
— Marcus Aurelius
"Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively."
— Socrates
"Ultimate excellence lies not in winning every battle, but in defeating the enemy without ever fighting."
— Sun Tzu
"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."
— Aristotle
"Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."
— Sun Tzu
"Choose to achieve perfection. We won't achieve it because perfection is impossible. But by pursuing perfection, we will achieve excellence."
— Vince Lombardi
"Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."
— Voltaire
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