“Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning”
Hesiod
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
Aristotle
“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 an act but a habit.”
“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
Steve Jobs
“There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.”
Baltasar Gracian
“One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent”
Epictetus
“A revelation is to be received as coming from God, not because of its internal excellence, or because we judge it to be worthy of God; but because God has declared it to be His in as plain and undeniable a manner as He has declared creation and providence to be His.”
William Law
