Quote Details
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. |
| in Attitude Quotes, Habit Quotes by Colin Powell |
 |
|
Share |
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
But, I do not want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence.
I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying.
Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
