An index to our character is provided by the pleasure or pain which follow upon the tasks we have achieved.
— Aristotle

It makes no small difference, then, whether we form habits of one kind or of another from our very youth; it makes a very great difference, or rather all the difference.
— Aristotle

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  
— Aristotle

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
— Aristotle

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

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
— Aristotle

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
— Aristotle

Men acquire a particular character trait by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
— Aristotle

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
— Aristotle

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
— Aristotle

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

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
— Aristotle

Aristotle Quotes