self-improvement Quotes

We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that... ...

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.

The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.

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

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.

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... ...