practice Quotes

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

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... ...

"In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not."

To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.

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

We become fair by acting fairly, moderate by acting moderately, and brave by acting bravely.

Good character traits come from regular practice. We become fair by doing fair things, moderate by doing moderate things, and brave by doing brave things.

Quality isn't a single act; it's a regular practice.

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

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;... ...

The intelligence consists not only in the knowledge but also in the skill to apply the knowledge into practice.

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... ...