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We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.

We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.

Aristotle
Self, Excellence, Events

Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice.

Aristotle
Art, Practice, Excellence

Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.

Aristotle
Excellence, Lines, Talent

There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness.

Aristotle
Blessed, Excellence, Crafts

The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

Aristotle
Expression, Excellence, Lows
Aristotle, Gerald Frank Else (1970). “Poetics”, p.58, University of Michigan Press

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

Aristotle
Men, Soul, 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
Honesty, Men, Excellence

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement.

Aristotle
Life, Inspire, Excellence
Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1860, Princeton University Press

The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.

Aristotle
Philosophy, Educational, Excellence

Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.

Aristotle
Men, Good Man, Excellence
Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.39, Wordsworth Editions

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
Maturity, Giving, Excellence

All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and supporters of aristocracy with excellence.

Aristotle
Men, Excellence, Aristocracy

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