Quotes about Excellence

Be excellent and party on dudes.

Dont' make excuses, make good.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed — there's so little competition.

To enjoy the things we ought, and to hate the things we ought, has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

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.

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.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Whenever you want to cheer yourself up, consider the good qualities of your companions, for example, the energy of one, the modesty of another, the generosity of yet another, and some other quality of another; for nothing cheers the heart as much as the images of excellence reflected in the character of our companions, all brought before us as fully as possible. Therefore, keep these images ready at hand.