Moral Excellence Quotes:

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

topic: Courage, Peace, Bravery, Moral Excellence, Moral Virtues

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

- Vince Lombardi

source: Vince Lombardi, Balance Design (1998). “Motivation Lombardi Style”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Commitment, Sports Leadership

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.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: First Love, Generosity, Feelings, Moral 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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Moral Excellence, Passion For Excellence

Of cases where a man is truthful both in speech and conduct when no considerations of honesty come in, from an habitual sincerity of disposition. Such sincerity may be esteemed a moral excellence; for the lover of truth, who is truthful even when nothing depends on it, will a fortiori be truthful when some interest is at stake, since having all along avoided falsehood for its own sake, he will assuredly avoid it when it is morally base; and this is a disposition that we praise.

- Aristotle

topic: Honesty, Men, Excellence, Moral Excellence

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

- Michael J. Fox

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Work, Inspirational Life, Self Esteem, Striving For Perfection, Striving For Excellence

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

- Will Durant

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Top Management

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.

- Confucius

source: As quoted in"Be Free!: Keys to Success and Happiness in Every Aspect of Your Life" by Slavica Bogdanov, (p. 45), October 12, 2012.

topic: Positive, Monday, Motivation, Inspirational Attitude, Keep A Positive Attitude

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

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Morning, Innovation And Leadership, Striving For Perfection

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.

- Aristotle

topic: Life, Success, Time, Life Philosophy, Moral Excellence

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

- Aristotle

topic: Nature, Philosophical, Passion, Daily Habits, Moral Excellence

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

- Aristotle

topic: Life, Death, Education, Moral Excellence, Philosophy Of Education

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

- Aristotle

topic: Love, Friendship, Family, Making Friends, Not Friends

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Encouraging, Confidence, Leadership Courage, Moral Excellence

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

- Aristotle

topic: Courage, Philosophical, Brave, Moral Excellence

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational History, Striving For Excellence

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Uplifting, Work, Teaching, Making A Difference In The World, Manual Labor

The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Excellence, Wish, Desire, Shrinks, Moral Excellence

Most people would rather give than get affection.

- Aristotle

topic: Moral Excellence

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

- Aristotle

topic: Moral Excellence, Political Life

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Wisdom, Peace, Kindness, Human Will, Inspirational Dog

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.

- Aristotle

source: Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1748, Princeton University Press

topic: Moral Excellence

We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

topic: Achievement, Degrees, Strive, Moral Excellence

Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.

- Charles Sumner

source: Charles Sumner (2016). “The Complete Works of Charles Sumner”, p.517, Library of Alexandria

topic: Flower, Excellence, Progress, Moral Excellence

Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

- Harriet Martineau

source: Harriet Martineau (1838). “How to Observe: Morals and Manners”, p.85, Transaction Publishers

topic: Class, Excellence, Moral, Moral Excellence

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

- Tacitus

source: "Annales". Book by Tacitus, IV. 1,

topic: Men, Excellence, Moral, Peace And Quiet, Moral Excellence

You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.

- Francis Chan

topic: Thought Provoking, Effort, Excellence, Moral Excellence

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

source: John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). “The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections”, p.85, Hackett Publishing

topic: Government, Support, Honor, Moral Excellence, Human Happiness

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.

- Rich Mullins

topic: Fall, Thinking, Ideas, Moral Excellence, Sufficiency

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.

- Catharine Macaulay

topic: Men, Law, Perfect, Moral Excellence, Perfect Woman

Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.

- Chanakya

topic: Wisdom, Excellence, Ornaments, Moral Excellence, Personal Beauty

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.

- Aristotle

topic: Maturity, Giving, Excellence, Moral Excellence, Nicomachean Ethics

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

source: William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.295

topic: Excellence, Intellectual, Battle, Moral Excellence