Excellence Quotes

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

The virtue as the art consecrates itself constantly to what's difficult to do, and the harder the task, the shinier the success.

Excellence, then, is about making choices, finding a middle ground, which is determined by reason, as a wise person would decide.

Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.

There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that... ...

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials.

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

We are what we do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.