habit Quotes

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.

We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage.

No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

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... ...

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

People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.

What you have to learn to do, you learn by doing.

When we look at the matter from another point of view, great caution would seem to be required. For the habit of lightly changing the laws is an evil, and, when the advantage is small, some errors both of lawgivers... ...

Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just;... ...

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.