Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.

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.

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.