“In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have the most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.”
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
“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.”
Aristotle
“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
“From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.”
Jean de la Bruyere
“There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.”
Baltasar Gracian
“In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.”
Jane Austen
