Quotes About Excellence

Wealth, the most excellent of all the gods.

Wealth--the most excellent of all gods.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

Kings ought to differ from their subjects, not in kind, but in perfection.

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

Every science and every inquiry, and similarly every activity and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

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

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Never use a clip from a movie you cannot match or surpass.

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

Do a little more than you're paid to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family & friends.

Why care for grammar as long as we are good?

What I found was a hidden source of anguish that wasn't just widespread but nearly universal among people who have done well in their careers. I came to call this the "striver's curse": people who strive to be excellent at what they do often wind up finding their inevitable decline terrifying, their successes increasingly unsatisfying, and their relationships lacking.

Success, the fruit of excellence, becomes an addiction. All because of pride. A cousin of pride is fear.

Get old sharing the things you believe are most important. Excellence is always its own reward, and this is how you can be most excellent as you age.

Devote the back half of your life to serving others with your wisdom. Get old sharing the things you believe are most important. Excellence is always its own reward, and this is how you can be most excellent as you age.

Accept business only at a price permitting thoroughness. Then do a thorough job, regardless of cost to us.

As far as the adjectives that I lead with, I think a writer and a comedienne are first. I have never qualified my experience or gender or my race, although I know that's a huge component on how that is used. But I think in order for me to do my job effectively, I have to really be the best at what it is I'm doing.