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  • 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.

    Courage   Peace   Bravery  
    "Nichomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle, Book II, c. 325 BC.
  • Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.

  • Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

    Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Eudemian Ethics”, p.69, Aeterna Press
  • Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

    Lying   Mean   Men  
    Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1748, Princeton University Press
  • You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.

  • Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

    "The Story of Philosophy". Book by Will Durant, p. 76, 1926.
  • All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

    Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”
  • You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

  • Pope has elegantly said a perfect woman's but a softer man. And if we take in the consideration, that there can be but one rule of moral excellence for beings made of the same materials, organized after the same manner, and subjected to similar laws of Nature, we must either agree with Mr. Pope, or we must reverse the proposition, and say, that a perfect man is a woman formed after a coarser mold.

    Men   Law   Perfect  
  • Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

  • In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.

    Men   Excellence   Moral  
    "Annales". Book by Tacitus, IV. 1,
  • Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

    Twitter post from Aug 14, 2011
  • The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.

  • Most people would rather give than get affection.

  • Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

    Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.72, Prabhat Prakashan
  • Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

    Harriet Martineau (1838). “How to Observe: Morals and Manners”, p.85, Transaction Publishers
  • The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it.

  • I think I would rather live on the verge of falling and let my security be in the all-sufficiency of the grace of God than to live in some pietistic illusion of moral excellence. Not that I don't want to be morally excellent but my faith isn't in the idea that I'm more moral than anybody else. My faith is in the idea that God and His love are greater than whatever sins any of us commit.

    Fall   Thinking   Ideas  
  • The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

    Life   Death   Education  
    Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing
  • Honor is truly sacred, but holds a lower rank in the scale of moral excellence than virtue. Indeed the former is part of the latter, and consequently has not equal pretensions to support a frame of government productive of human happiness.

    John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). “The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections”, p.85, Hackett Publishing
  • All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

    "Rhetoric". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 1369a.5,
  • Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

    Life   Success   Wisdom  
    Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”
  • I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much superior to intellectual, that I ought to esteem one virtue more valuable than a hundred original thoughts.

    William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.295
  • We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  • We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

  • I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. But we cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for; that task is left to others. With the desire for excellence comes, therefore, the desire for approbation. And this distinguishes intellectual excellence from moral excellence; for the latter has no necessity of human tribunal; it is more inclined to shrink from the public than to invite the public to be its judge.

  • The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

    As quoted in"Be Free!: Keys to Success and Happiness in Every Aspect of Your Life" by Slavica Bogdanov, (p. 45), October 12, 2012.
  • Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.

    Charles Sumner (2016). “The Complete Works of Charles Sumner”, p.517, Library of Alexandria
  • Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

    "The Drum Major Instinct". Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, kinginstitute.stanford.edu. February 4, 1968.
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