Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
Aristotle (384–322 BC) was Plato's student and Alexander the Great's tutor, and founded the Lyceum in Athens. His work spans logic, biology, ethics, politics, rhetoric and poetics — effectively the whole of the knowledge available to him. The Nicomachean Ethics, where he develops virtue as a mean between extremes, is still read as a living text.
About this theme: Success
Success is the theme where the difference between a quotation and a slogan is easiest to see. A slogan promises an outcome; a quote worth keeping usually names a cost. That is why the most durable lines about success are so often about failure — the number of attempts, the years without result, what had to be given up along the way.
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- Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small.— Lao Tzu
- Fortune favors the bold.— Latin Proverb
- Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.— Albert Einstein
- Grain by grain a loaf, stone by stone a palace.— Croatian Proverb
- Well done is better than well said.— Benjamin Franklin