self-improvement Quotes

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

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

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.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.