Excellence as a family value
Excellence is doing things well because they are worth doing well. Families who choose it want high standards without perfectionism: aim high, give your best, and know that your best is enough. A creed line about excellence is stronger when it is about effort and craft rather than grades and trophies.
Family mottos about excellence
- Do your best
- Aim high
- Ever higher
- Excellence in all things
- Aim high. Speak true.
- Aim high. Be brave. Keep your word.
- Excellence and hard work
Latin mottos with excellence
In Latin, excellence is Praestantia. Paired with another value it makes a classic two-word motto.
- Semper ad Meliora
- Always toward better things
- Praestantia et Veritate
- By excellence and truth
- Praestantia et Fortitudine
- By excellence and courage
- Praestantia et Officio
- By excellence and duty
- Praestantia et Labore
- By excellence and work
- Praestantia et Amore
- By excellence and love
- Praestantia et Benignitate
- By excellence and kindness
- Praestantia et Fidelitate
- By excellence and faithfulness
Creed lines about excellence
Classic (timeless and formal)
We strive for excellence in all we do.
We do small things well and great things gladly.
We aim high and hold our standards higher.
Warm (heartfelt and plain-spoken)
We do our best, and our best is enough.
We take pride in doing things well.
We encourage each other to reach a little higher.
Playful (funny, but still true)
We give one hundred percent. Okay, ninety-five on Mondays.
We aim for the stars and settle for the moon.
We are excellent at excellence.
A sample creed built around excellence
This is what the generator writes for a family whose answers put excellence first, in the classic tone. Your family's own answers will change the lines, and you can edit every one.
This is our family creed:
We aim high and hold our standards higher.
We are honest in great things and in small.
We stand firm when it would be easier to run.
So it is, and so it shall be.
Excellence in heraldry
Or (gold) is the color most often tied to excellence: traditionally generosity and elevation of the mind. Symbols that suit it:
Talk about it at the table
- What is something you do really well? How did you get good at it?
- What is the difference between doing your best and being perfect?
- What should we celebrate even when it does not win?