Excellence Is Not An Act Quotes & Sayings

Success is a choice; you choose it and work it out! Excellence is deliberate and so it is intentionally pursued. No successful person ever remained idle for success to knock his/her door for him/her — Israelmore Ayivor

Arete is simply excellence and the striving for excellence in all things," said Odysseus. "Arete simply means the act of offering all actions as a sort of sacrament to excellence, of devoting one's life to finding excellence, identifying it when it offers itself, and achieving it in your own life. — Dan Simmons

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. you are what you repeatedly do — Shaquille O'Neal

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best. — Marva Collins

Excellence is not just words, it's an act or process that paves the way for the purposeful and successful life. — Euginia Herlihy

Believe passionately in what you do, and never knowingly compromise your standards and values. Act like a true professional, aiming for true excellence, and the money will follow. — David Maister

The fact that the human act is self-directed or built up means in no sense that the actor necessarily exercises excellence in its construction. Indeed, he may do a very poor job in constructing his act. — Herbert Blumer

Stand out because you think differently.
Stand out because you speak differently.
Stand out because you act differently.
Stand out because you work differently.
Stand out because you live differently. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent",
in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly". — Plato

There is one act par excellence which profanes money by going directly against the law of money, an act for which money is not made. That act is giving. — Jacques Ellul

Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of four-squared excellence, in body and mind, in act and thought? — Simonides Of Ceos

Aristotle said 'we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.'" He — Toni Aleo

I have no patience with anyone born after World War II. You have to explain everything to these people. — Selma Diamond

Excellence isn't an act, it's a habit — Quincy Jones

Journey to Excellence involve identifying the right things, at the right time, and to act upon them with the right way to achieve desired measurable outcome. — Bharat Shah

Excellence is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle.

In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges. — Ira Glass

Love is circumstantial; we can love anyone if need be; and losing the one we love is the singular catastrophe. Time does not heal it. Every present moment yearns for even the roughest past. — Andrew Solomon

Emotions or feelings stem from your attitude and they become the basis on which you decide or act. All decisions, choices and actions have some kind of underlying emotional influence. To change the way you feel about someone or something you must first change the way you think about them. — Archibald Marwizi

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.

The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act. — Franz Schubert

Because in life, knowledge is only part of the battle. WITHOUT ACTION, KNOWLEDGE IS OFTEN MEANINGLESS. As Aristotle put it, to be excellent we cannot simply think or feel excellent, we must act excellently. Yet the action required to follow through on what we know is often the hardest part. — Shawn Achor

I can choose how I'm going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life - whether I will see them as curses or opportunities (and on the occasions when I can't rise to the most optimistic viewpoint, because I'm feeling too damn sorry for myself, I can choose to keep trying to change my outlook). — Elizabeth Gilbert

Be inspired, raising the bar of excellence in your life every day. Act better than before; grow higher than usual; think faster than normal. — Israelmore Ayivor

He is a trouble causer who acts without intent. In other words, living on purpose means you must act with known intent. Develop an objective sense that asks the why questions as you pull out action thoughts. Why do I want to do this? Why do I want to do it now? Why do I want to stop this? Why do I want to enter into this agreement? Why do I want to change? You will discover that when you have a known intent, you have enough motivation to sustain the success of your decision. — Archibald Marwizi

Too often we don't call out a wrong or expect ourselves or others to act with routine integrity, excellence, or love. There has been a worldwide failure in leadership, birthing an apathetic populace, unjustifiable poverty, unconscionable greed, and a globe ravaged and booby-trapped by war. — Brendon Burchard

I had hoped to be disliked by most, not by way of rebellion, but by way of excellence, disdain for the habitual, and the common man's inability to grasp this. The act of being scorned? I saw it as a victory, my irreverent boast against this world which could never fully quench me. — Coco J. Ginger

They took your commandments off the schoolhouse walls, they say it's a crime to pray. — Randy Travis

Love makes us wake up in the morning with a sense of purpose and a flow of creative ideas. Love floods our nervous system with positive energy, making us far more attractive to prospective employers, clients, and creative partners. Love fills us with powerful charisma, enabling us to produce new ideas and new projects, even within circumstances that seem to be limited. Love leads us to atone for our errors and clean up the mess when we've made mistakes. Love leads us to act with impeccability, integrity, and excellence. Love leads us to serve, to forgive, and to hope. Those things are the opposite of a poverty consciousness; they're the stuff of spiritual wealth creation. — Marianne Williamson

Look Fabian, the world is full of sheep, don't settle for being a sheep, even if you do reside over those creatures, act more like a Ram. — T.A. Uner

In the end, excellence in education means excellence in teaching, and if this country would give the status to first grade teachers that we give to full professors, this one act alone would revitalize the nation's schools. — Ernest L. Boyer

Excellence is not an act, but habit. — Aristotle.

Bankruptcy as a solution in kind of un-American. — Thomas W. Horton

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit. — Will Durant

Don't do things or act out your posture and gestures to impress people, just be yourself and portray the confident 'you' with that high self-esteem. So relax because you are 'you'. Be sincere, be authentic. That will be impressive enough. — Archibald Marwizi