Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralising.

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.