#excellence

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

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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#allowed #dulling #excellence #goodbye #human

It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence. ↗

— Edward Bok

#american #any #brought #country #element

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

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But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great. ↗

— Andy Hertzfeld

#besides #contribution #creative #creative spirit #enough

To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on. ↗

— Florence Griffith Joyner

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The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

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Consider ye the seed from which ye sprang; Ye were not made to live like unto brutes But for pursuit of virtue and of knowledge. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#excellence #humanity #knowledge #life #virtue

But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part. ↗

— Lactantius

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Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended. ↗

— Lactantius

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