Excellence Quotes

The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.

They should rule who are able to rule best.

The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them.

People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.

Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a... ...

Quality isn't a single act; it's a regular practice.