“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
This quote, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit”, attributed to Aristotle, is actually a paraphrase from the work of his biographer, Will Durant. In The Story of Philosophy (1926), Durant summarized Aristotle’s ideas, stating: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”