#excellence

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

For this is your business: to act well the character assigned you; to choose it belongs to another.

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself, and in no instance bypass the discriminations of reason?

He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing.

Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence brings about wealth and all other goods for men, both in public and in private.

The gods give nothing that is really good and noble without labor and careful attention.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit; we become what we do repeatedly.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

Better it is to live one day seeing the Supreme Truth than to live a hundred years without ever seeing it.

What is done in love is done well.

Keep your vision high and your heart humble.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

Excellence is a habit nurtured through daily discipline and relentless refinement.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

The superior man is easy to serve and difficult to please.

Only when refinement and substance are balanced do we have the true gentleman.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

A jade stone cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials.

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an isolated act, but a steady habit.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand.

Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.