Excellence Insights
Aristotle:
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:
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
[Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scientist and Physician, 384 BC-322 BC]
Aristotle
“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.” [Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scientist and Physician, 384 BC-322 BC]
Colin Powell:
“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in
little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.”
[Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff [1989-93]. At present, US Secretary of
State, 1937]
Confucius:
“A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”
[China's most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist, 551-479
BC]
John W. Gardner:
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble
activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an
exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither
its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
Med Yones:
Leadership excellence requires a balanced mix of
paradoxes. Leaders need to be visionary yet practical, teachers yet
learners, believers yet open-minded, assertive yet tolerant. [International
Institute of Management]
Perry Paxton :
“Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will
come.”
Pearl S. Buck:
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to
do something well is to enjoy it.
Ralph Marston:
“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door. [American
Author]
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Is it so bad to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates,
and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure
and wise spirit that ever took flesh. [American Author]
Rick Pitino:
“Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to
offer.”
Seneca:
“Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that
matters”
[Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD]
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