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Excellence Quotes by Hesiod
- In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.
- Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the…
- Badness you can get easily, in quantity. The road is smooth and lies close by. But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put…
- Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have…
More Excellence Quotes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is… — Walter Bagehot
- No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of… — Charles Kendall Adams
- I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there. — Tyra Banks