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

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

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.

Every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

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

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 an act but a habit.