“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” (often misattributed to Aristotle) · goodthoughts

No. 024Misattributed

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

Author: Aristotle

Filed under habit

Real origin: Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy (1926), summing up Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics in his own words

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