"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction, and skillful execution."
Source not yet traced to a specific passage, so treat the exact wording as unverified. See disputed and misattributed quotes.
Not a Stoic. Aristotle is classed as Greco-Roman & Adjacent: Classical figures who shaped or argued with Stoicism — Socrates, Aristotle, Heraclitus, Cicero and others. Related, but not Stoic.
More quotes from Aristotle
- "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
- "The path to happiness is virtue."
- "Criticism is something we can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."
- "Excellence is not an act, but a habit."
- "Courage is the first of human virtues, because it guarantees all the others."