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 Greek Philosopher More Aristotle Quotes 6
I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life. Oprah Winfrey American Entertainer More Oprah Winfrey Quotes 3
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. Aristotle Greek Philosopher More Aristotle Quotes 2
Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do. Shaquille ONeal More Shaquille ONeal Quotes 2
Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. Oprah Winfrey American Entertainer More Oprah Winfrey Quotes 1
I tell my guys, 'Excellence is a never ending thing.' I tell them to never be satisfied. Kenny Dupont More Kenny Dupont Quotes 1
Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. Sun Tzu Chinese Philosopher More Sun Tzu Quotes 1
To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. Sun Tzu Chinese Philosopher More Sun Tzu Quotes 1
When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality. Joe Paterno American Coach More Joe Paterno Quotes 1
Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. John W. Gardner American Educator More John W. Gardner Quotes 1
The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free. Charles R. Swindoll American Clergyman More Charles R. Swindoll Quotes 1
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing. Harriet Beryl Braiker More Harriet Beryl Braiker Quotes 0
I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist. Harriet Beecher Stowe American Writer More Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes 0
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 More Hesiod Quotes 0
No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation. Horace Ancient Roman Poet More Horace Quotes 0
Judicial excellence involves candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power, so we want to know how he or she will exercise this power and how they see the world. And we need and deserve to know what is in your mind and in your heart. Herb Kohl More Herb Kohl Quotes 0
We're looking for A and B students who are highly motivated and whose parents see the wisdom of academic excellence. Hugh McIntosh More Hugh McIntosh Quotes 0
Hey, let me tell you I worked years to achieve artistic excellence, ... and then all of a sudden, I get involved in this stupid, crazy, insane cartoon and now I'm hotter than I've ever been. I love it. I love it. Isaac Hayes More Isaac Hayes Quotes 0
The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment. Jacques Barzun French Educator More Jacques Barzun Quotes 0
Excellence is an expensive proposition. This year's tuition increase reflects our commitment to providing an excellent educational experience for students. Jack Dunn More Jack Dunn Quotes 0
Base Envy withers at another's joy,/ And hates that excellence it cannot reach. James Thomson Scottish Poet More James Thomson Quotes 0
It is this type of leadership that promotes academic excellence in the public schools of Alabama. James Wright More James Wright Quotes 0