habit Quotes

We are what we continually do.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become... ...

People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

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

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.