英语名人名言：excellence 优秀

　　It is only in your mind that you have to excel, at anything or everything. Of course, it would be very nice to excel at most things. Indeed, we recommend that you try and do your best. But realistically, you are entitled to do the bare minimum to get by. All your accomplishments1 are just a bonus, something to enjoy, not requirements. You don't have to do anything to prove that you are worthy2 of existing.

　　Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi, The Art & Science of Rational Eating, 1992

　　To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence3 of character.

　　Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics4

　　With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

　　Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics

　　Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

　　George F. Will (1941 - )

　　Strive for excellence, not perfection.

　　H. Jackson Brown Jr., O Magazine, December 2003

　　In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

　　Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Northanger Abbey, 1818

　　The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

　　John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)

　　I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

　　Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), quoted by Lorne A. Adrain in 'The Most Important Thing I Know'

　　The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

　　Pearl Buck5 (1892 - 1973), The Joy of Children, 1964

　　It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity6.

　　Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Maxims7

　　The renown8 which riches or beauty confer is fleeting9 and frail10; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting11 possession.

　　Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC), The War with Catiline

　　The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

　　Shana Alexander

　　It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

　　Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

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