practice Quotes

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

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 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... ...

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.

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.

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