Quotes about Excellence
Affectation naturally counterfeits those excellences which are placed at the greatest distance from possibility of attainment, because, knowing our own defects, we eagerly endeavor to supply them with artificial excellence
— Samuel Johnson
High achievers dwell on what they do well and spend very little time evaluating themselves and their performances.
— John Eliot
Excellence is a signal to God that we are going to dig our ditches but if You don't make it rain, all of this is a waste of time.
— Jeff Henderson
I choose not to remain at good today, but rather to answer the call to greatness.
— Marianne Williamson
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ~ Aristotle Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ~ Aristotle
— Aristotle
Man's work as Man is accomplished by virtue of Practical Wisdom and Moral Virtue, the latter giving the right aim and direction, the former the right means to its attainment;
— Aristotle
Hence while in respect of its substance and the definition that states what it really is in essence virtue is the observance of the mean, in point of excellence and rightness it is an extreme.
— Aristotle
Excellence is not an act, but habit.
— Aristotle
To feel or act towards the right person to the right extent at the right time for the right reason in the right way - is not easy, and it is not everyone that can do it, hence to do these things well is a rare, laudable and fine achievement.
— Aristotle
As, in the serious style, Homer is pre-eminent among poets, for he alone combined dramatic form with excellence of imitation, so he too first laid down the main lines of Comedy, by dramatising the ludicrous instead of writing personal satire.
— Aristotle
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason is the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
— Aristotle
Happiness is the exercise of talent, along the lines of excellence.
— Aristotle