Aristotle Quotes About Habits

• Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

• It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

  Aristotle

  Long, Impossible, Argument

  Aristotle, Terence Irwin (1996). “Aristotle: Introductory Readings”, p.283, Hackett Publishing

• It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Morning, Health

• Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Teenage, Philosophical

• 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.

  Aristotle

  Self, Excellence, Events

• We are the sum of our actions, and therefore our habits make all the difference.

  Aristotle

  Differences, Our Actions, Action

• The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.

  Aristotle

  Maturity, Giving, Excellence

• The best way to teach morality is to make it a habit with children.

  Aristotle

  Education, Children, School

• 95% of everything you do is the result of habit.

  Aristotle

  Habit, Results

• Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies.

  Aristotle

  Health, Giving, Rising

  Economics I

• The habits we form from childhood make no small difference, but rather they make all the difference.

  Aristotle

  Education, Teaching, Differences

• Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

  Aristotle

  Courage, Peace, Bravery

  "Nichomachean Ethics". Book by Aristotle, Book II, c. 325 BC.

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

  Aristotle

  Nature, Causes, Chance

  Aristotle (2016). “Rhetoric”, p.54, Aristotle

• When we look at the matter from another point of view, great caution would seem to be required. For the habit of lightly changing the laws is an evil, and, when the advantage is small, some errors both of lawgivers and rulers had better be left; the citizen will not gain so much by making the change as he will lose by the habit of disobedience.

  Aristotle

  Errors, Views, Law

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.63, Aristotle

• Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

  Aristotle

  Art, Academic Excellence, Training

  "The Story of Philosophy". Book by Will Durant, p. 76, 1926.

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

  Aristotle

  Nature, Philosophical, Passion

  "Rhetoric". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 1369a.5,

• We are what we do.
  Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

  Aristotle

  Motivational, Positive, Perseverance

• Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

  Aristotle

  Perfect, Virtue, Habit

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.503, Simon and Schuster

• Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal.

  Aristotle

  Nature, Children, Science

  Historia Animalium VIII.I (transl. D. W. Thompson)

• It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

  Aristotle

  Kindness, Justice, Black

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

• The good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties. This exercise must occupy a complete lifetime. One swallow does make a spring, nor does one fine day. Excellence is a habit, not an event.

  Aristotle

  Spring, Exercise, Men

• A goal gets us motivated,while a good habit keeps us stay motivated.

  Aristotle

  Goal, Habit, Motivated

• Today you can start forming habits for overcoming all obstacles in life... even nicotine cravings

  Aristotle

  Encouragement, Overcoming, Today

• Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection.

  Aristotle

  Affection, Habit

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Economics”, p.13, Aeterna Press

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