Excellence

"To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character."
-Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics

"Strive for excellence, not perfection."
-H. Jackson Brown Jr., O Magazine, December 2003

"The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence."
-John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)